Bug 17949 – PCMCIA start causes laptop to hang with NIC is installed

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Tom 2003-03-21 13:58:21 UTC]

Note:  This happens using both an rc4 and an rc2 install

Dell Latitude C800
Linksys PCM100 NIC

1.  NIC not detected at boot.
2.  Modprobe pcmcia_core, i82365 and ds
3.  System shows 2 PCI devices enabled 
4.  Execute /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
5.  System shows cardmgr watching 2 sockets
6.  Run ifconfig -a, only dummy shows, not eth0
7.  If NIC installed, get one beep, then system hangs
8.  If NIC installed prior to running pcmcia start, system hangs when it is run
9.  System works fine with other distro installs, tested with SuSe and Redhat

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.See steps above
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3.

Actual Results:  
System hangs

Expected Results:  
should locate NIC and allow system to have network access

[Comment 1 Tom 2003-03-21 14:01:24 UTC]

Should have noted that the same issue happens if using:

Xircom PCMCIA 10/100 NIC
SOHO Ware PCMCIA 10/100 NIC
SOHO WARE 16bit PCMCIA 10/100

[Comment 2 Jon 2003-04-16 14:58:22 UTC]

I have observed similar symptoms on a Dell Inspiron 8100 using an Orinoco 802.11b card.

[Comment 3 Jon 2003-04-16 15:56:05 UTC]

oops, never mind, this fixed it for me:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=224985#224985

[Comment 4 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) 2003-11-19 06:21:26 UTC]

See comment #3

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:24:42 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.