Hey all,

I just loaded slackware 9.1.

It is installed on a Dell Latitude D600. Pentim M 1.3Ghz.

I have a Cisco Aironet wireless card in the PCMCIA slot.

It will not boot with or without the card in the slot.

It hangs at:

cardmgr[60]: watching 2 sockets
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff:


Those are the last 3 lines and it just sits there.

I have to get into the Linux OS so I can add the proper lines to LILO so I can also boot to Windows XP.

So right now my laptop is just sitting there

Looks kinda neat

Thanks in advance to you folks!


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P.S. - is there a way for me to boot off of the Slack CD and edit my lilo stuff? That way while I'm finding a solution I can be booted into Win XP?

when u boot off the slack cd it stops at a certain point and asks which kernel to boot or if you need any extra settings. right above that line it will show how to boot ur machine in a pinch somehthing like vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro noinitrd ... u can try that if ur pcmcia stuff is in the kernel ... but its probably coming from rc.hotplug or rc.modules not sure never run slack on a pc with pcmcia so ull get the same error msg if so. but

u can boot off the cd like u are going to install slackware, but instead of running setup just mount the partition that will contain the lines u need to add and edit it.

something like:
boot off the cd
mkdir /mnt/hd
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd
cd /mnt/hd/etc
edit file cuaseing the problem and reboot

Assuming that the pcmcia stuff is coming from rc.hotplug or rc.modules ull just need ur /etc directory which is probly on your root partition.

forgot about ur lilo problem...

just boot into slack install dont run setup ... mount ur partitions in /mnt and chroot urself in the new mount points.

so something like:
make the dirs in /mnt u need
mount them in /mnt
cd to them
chroot /mnt/hd /bin/bash

now ull be inside ur root partition like u booted off of it ... u can edit and rerun lilo.
ur path probly wont be setup so just give absolute paths: /sbin/lilo /bin/vi ...

wow........Linux sure don't wanna run on this laptop.

I have never had so many problems with a laptop before and Linux.

Must be because it's a dang Dell.

Awe crap.

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Thanks skog. I tried some of that stuff you said. I need to do a bit more research. Right now I can't get jack working so I had to do an "fdisk /mbr" from a Win98 boot disk just so I can get back into WinXP and do my work today.

Oh well........more Linux headaches Yay...

Ok...here's the deal.

Screw Active Directory for now. I'm getting my Laptop running Linux

I'll get back to you.

OK, I should have done WAY more research before posting. I feel like a fool

Here is what I did:

First after installing Slackware 9.1 and putting LILO on the MBR, I rebooted and booted off of the Slackware CD.

I then mounted my HD stuff as skog stated to do above:

make the dirs in /mnt u need
mount them in /mnt
cd to them
chroot /mnt/hd /bin/bash

After this I was able to edit my lilo.conf in the /etc folder. Which worked nicely

I then decided to modify the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts as follows:

from include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff,port 0xc00-0xcff to include port 0x100-0x4ff,port 0xc00-0xcff (credit to Mark Holbrook from here http://holbrooks.org/linux/delli8k/ )

I then added hdparm -d1X66 -c3 -m16 /dev/hda to my rc.local file using pico (my favorite editor)

Now I boot this bad boy and I get my Options of Windows XP Pro and Slackware Linux 9.1

Dang.... Slack is sure a fine OS I must say.

I simply needed some patience.

So maybe later tonight or tomorrow I'll do Xfree86 and config my display, and then I should be all set. This version of Slack is supposed to have ACPI support for this laptop. I'll keep ya posted.

Peace out .