Tom Duffy wrote:
>
> > devfs and the PCMCIA utilities appear to dislike one another as well. I
> > was getting a hard machine lockup when I inserted a CF card on my Dell
> > laptop (2.4.1-XFS). Tried all sorts of things and then disabled DevFS
> > (now that device nodes work I could do that!:-) and the Card Services
> > now works and I can read my CF cards with out instant death.
>
> I am seeing a similar problem: when I insert and remove pcmcia cards on my
> dell laptop, the machine locks up hard (can't even get into kdb). I just
> tried rebooting the kernel with devfs=nomount option to disable devfs on
> bootup and I am *still* having the problem with pcmcia. (i am using
> 2.4.0+xfs -- would love to upgrade to 2.4.1 but can't access network
> becasue of lack of pcmcia support :( ).
I just put the devfs nomount flag in the lilo append options. Didn't
recompile the kernel. I did however earlier download and compile the
latest pcmcia utils, but still had lockups. I have not tried the orginal
RH7 utils without devfs.
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Sydney University
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