slackware 11.0 on benq joybook r55

/y0shi · 03-18-2007, 10:39 AM

hi!
well a friend of mine bought a benq joybook r55 instead of thinkpad (big fault) - anyway i still like him, so i tried installing slackware 11.0 on it ...

installing went well until i decided to install the modules along with the new 2.6. kernel.
so here comes the point: the kernel is booting fine without modules (it gives errors because of no modules but it boots) but if i install modules the boot hangs on something like this:

Code:

cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff:

(this is not copy-pasted but it looks similar)

so it really hangs at a point where something like clean or excluding should come, you cannot even hit ctrl+alt+delete and reboot ...

has some one an idea of how to solve this?
what is this cs: IO port probe thing anyway?

i would really appreciate your help - thank you in advance!

bsdunix · 03-19-2007, 03:48 PM

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what is this cs: IO port probe thing anyway?

Kernel Card Services -- core services

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has some one an idea of how to solve this?

Your port probe hang looks similar to this one discussed here:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail...ch/003331.html

This may work for you, if you can boot into single user mode. Make a backup of /etc/pcmcia/config.opts, then edit the working copy, and remove the "0x820-0x8ff" entry or whatever is the last port being probe you see on the screen when your system hangs.

Code:

# These are the official ports to use from pcmcia-cs:
#include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff
# However, ports 0x810-0x81f hurt on some DELL machines and
# ports 0x3b0-0x3df hurt on some FSC machines, so we use this port
# list instead:
include port 0x100-0x3af, port 0x3e0-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x80f, port 0x820-0x8ff,
port 0xc00-0xcff

"Single-user mode"
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Single-user_mode

/y0shi · 03-19-2007, 05:34 PM

thank you very much!
i will check this out and come straigth back here with report (-;

will need some time though, because i have to meet this friend ...

/y0shi · 03-27-2007, 04:49 AM

well thanks again this exactly did it!
i just removed the one entry and the kernel boots fine.

thank you!