Hi,

I have a MiniPCI card which has ethernet card as well as 56K modem. The modem isn't working but the NIC is working. When I try to boot the system (FC4 as well as FC5), it hangs. If I remove the MiniPCI, the system boots fine.

It is a dual boot system via grub, the other being Win XP. When WinXP booted, it asked me if I want to disable the device (modem) which was causing the error. After disabling the device, WinXP boots properly.

Is there a way for me to disable the device (modem on the MiniPCI) either at boot time or as a kernel boot param so that I can boot the system and still be able to use the NIC?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
-Akshay