Dell Inspiron 8000 and Slack 9.1
 

Successfully installed slack 9.1 on Inspiron 8000 system. Currently hanging up on this line during boot up:


cs: 10 port probe 0x0800-0x08ff:

Line before this reads:

cs: 10 port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.


Im pretty new to linux, any help would be appreciated :)

PS: these errors occur after PCMCIA initialization

What sort of installation method did you choose?
Full, Newbie etc...

full install

i know in Gentoo there is a separate package for pcmcia called pcmcia-cs, you might want to disable the kernel pcmcia stuff and use that instead or if you can't even get into the system see if there is a kernel command line argument to boot the system with, i.e. nopcmcia or something

thanks for the info!

I'll try some different things and post the results.

thanks again!

reinstalled without PCMCIA support, will boot now. thanks a bunch :)

this is a laptop, right? so in the end you *might* need pcmcia support (for ethernet card or whatever), again, i don't know if slackware has this but there is a separate package for pcmcia in Gentoo called pcmcia-cs, you can find info on this at:

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/

hth.