Hi,
I just jumped in an no-windows world and I'm sorry to feel a bit lost..

so I installed RedHat 8 on my Fujitsu-Siemens M7400 (centrino), after I checked the compatibility list.

The installation is ok, but when I boot it stops at:

PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=24ca
PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions
PCI_IDE: (ide_setup_pci_device could not enable device.

so..there is a problem with the PCI.. I don't know what to do.

If there is someone out there who knows a solution or know a link to follow, it would be very very nice (and would allow me to kick out Mr.Bill from my laptop).

Why would you still want to install RH8?
I run RH9 on a IBM R40 (Centrino) at work but if I had a choice I would rather install Fedora on it.
Your problem is probably related to the older RH8 kernel not supporting some stuff from your Centrino laptop.

Why don't you give Fedora Core 1 a try?

Thanks for the reply

The fact is that I bought "linux for dummies" (like me) and red hat 8 was inside. so i just get on with it.
but the book don't consider the problem i encounter.

I searched for solutions on the web and I found that I could change some lines in the program, but i'm such a newbie that I even understand how to access the command lines..
If I could, I don't think it's so hard to copy some lines..

I think the best thing to do is to just follow your advise and install Fedora.

thanks again!

Chcking to see if you resolved this problem as I'm seeing the same thing on a Fujitsu Lifebook S6120 with RedHat 8.0.

I'm going to try a kernel upgrade as I've seen thread to this effect for other laptops. Apparently RH 9 can resolves this as well.

I bypassed the problem installing Fedora, since it seems that laptops with a centrino are a bit different..

Fedora worked well since the first use, so I recomend you to do the same..