Linux on Presario 2500 disabled firewire and usb

Original Problem:

Fedora Core 1 hangs just after Checking Disks.
Red Had Linux 9.0 hangs on Checking for new Hardware.

Installing cleanly on a Presario 2500 (256Mb RAM, 30Gb HD - cutting edge ;-)).

Solution:



After lots of back and forth installing Linux on a Compaq Presario 2500, I finally managed to get Red Hat 9.0 to run:

The boot parameters (configured during setup), needed to have

nofirewire nousb

To check this out without reinstalling, when GRUB starts, just press a, and add in the nofirewire nousb parameters, to check.

The noprobe parameter had no impact on failure to boot or not, as did the nopcmcia.

Legacy USB made no difference, on or off.

I'm checking this on Fedora Core 1 also, see if that works there too (tried that first, drove me nuts, and had more luck debugging what was going on during the 9.0 boot process.

The next step in the problem is seeing how to get the firewire and the USB running. Any takers?

I had a similar problem with Red Hat. I installed Suse 8.2 and 9.0. 9.0 is great but I do have a prob. with the USB. It was working at one time but it seems to have bit the dust. My 256meg jump drive wont work or usb 2.0 DVD. Any ideas please advise.

Thanks,

i had trouble also with this model running mandrake 9.1 the i updated to 10.1 and everything is working wonderful.
fireiwre,pcmcia,ATI video, usb etc. etc.... you get the idea