Suse 9.2

baraujo · 03-31-2005, 08:42 AM

Hello,

I installed Suse 9.2 on a laptop and the system hanged at starting PCMCIA. Following the Suse Manual, I used NOPCMCIA=yes to boot. Then I typed modprobe pcmcia_core, modprobe yenta_socket and modprobe ds. These commands seem to work OK and no errors occured. Does anyone know what is wrong? According to the manual, if linux does not boot due to PCMCIA some error should occur when loading these modules?!

osbie · 03-31-2005, 02:22 PM

I had no idea there was one till yesterday. I found out the hard way (old drive died, no manuals, freshinstal on ibm TP A21m).
however on 2nd try i made shure everthing that was going to be plugged, was. Printer, Nic, etc. This seemed to solve the prob. for me. ofcourse wene it gives the option to test the Inet setup and online update, that fails as it wants eth0 not ath0 as it is on my machine. so i skip that click the go to yast opt. and changed that. all good----Finally.

You have compleat funtion now tho correct?

baraujo · 04-01-2005, 02:48 AM

What is strange is that I have no PCMCIA card inserted in the computer. Is it possible that the internal wireless card is connected to the PCMCIA slot in some way?

jschiwal · 04-01-2005, 03:42 AM

Yes, it's possible that the computer uses an internal pcmcia connection. (i.e. another slot not 'the' slot).

I seem to remember reading that somewhere, but I don't remember where.

osbie · 04-01-2005, 01:57 PM

those are usually miniPCI arn't they? but who knows?

funny thing, i decided to up KDE to 3.4.
After a reboot, the sys hung at 'setting up sys ' UNTIL i removed my wi-fi card! then poceeded as normal. It obviously worked upon re-insertion, Thankfully, tho I have yet to reboot again to see if this a consistant prob.j

baraujo · 04-10-2005, 09:40 AM

I am new to linux and I still need some help.