Hi !

My computer : HP ze4560us laptop

I installed RedHat Linux 9 on it. Installation was fine but when I started booting it for the first time it hung !
It says starting pcmcia and then it hangs

So I tried entering the single user mode by editing the kernel line in Grub

it says :
initializing usb mouse,. keyboard..OK
initialzing firewire controller (ohci1394)..Ok
and then it takes me to the "#" prompt.
But my keyboard doesnt work anymore. So I can't type" chkconfig --del pcmcia" -- I can't anything at all.

Please advise.

Thanks in advance for your help and time.

I've had a similar problem, and in order to avoid it, I had to disable hot plugging. I don't know if that is the "correct" fix, but it works for me, and I realized that I don't really use the hotswap capabilities of PCMCIA anyway

Luck
Smee

I am not sure I will be helpfull, but I had the same problem with the installation of Mandrake in a laptop.
After the installation and during reboot, (in Mandrake at least), there is a message "press I for interactive startup". If you catch it (press I in time) you can avoid loading the pcmcia drivers and then you enter linux. From KDE (I am not sure) you can disable pcmcia at startup. Maybe you can pass "pcmcia=off" option in the file lilo.conf. Of course you cannot use pcmcia afterwards.
By the way, if somebody could inform us how we can deal with that problem and have a usable pcmcia, I would be greatfull.

I've got a Compaq M700 with Fedora Core 1 on it, and trying to configure a Lucent Wavelan pcmcia card, it locks up about half the time... I'm thinking that there may be an IRQ conflict somewhere? How can I check the IRQ's on this thing?

If you use KDE you can check the IRQs from Configuration -> KDE -> Information -> Interrupts. I suppose there is something similar in Gnome.