Hello all,

Here is my problem: pcmcia just don't work. When I booted up the first time, Starting pcmcia gave me an error something like "count 8435 (not sure on the #) too high, resetting" and did that like 5 times over 10 minutes. I just turned it off and turned it back on, it didn't happen again for awhile.

I can get linux to startup if I do NOT plug in my ethernet adapter (or my wireless card, but that issue will come a little later) and pcmcia says it starts fine ?!?!?! If I do plug a cable into the built in NIC then when Starting pcmcia just freezes. WHY ARE THESE TWO THINGS EVEN RELATED???

If I leave my wireless card in, it freezes (no matter if ethernet is plugged in or disconnected). I have not yet installed acpi but I don't think this has anything to do with it. Anyone have suggestions???

I am running 2.4.20-8 and have a compaq 2100.

Acpi could have something to do with it, depending...since you'll most likely need it anyway, maybe you could install acpi and see what happens.

yeah, gonna burn it to a cd then put it on the ol' laptop... then we will see what happens. I will surely be back