Laptop hangs during boot / PCMCIA trouble

[James Marcinek]

I have the same type of problem when I put my ORiNOCO card in. My
Pavillion ze4325us freezes forcing me to hard boot... I went to
linux-laptop.net but I'm still no closer... This is my second card...

James

For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com> wrote: 
> Am Do, den 15.07.2004 schrieb Cornelius Puschmann um 6:22:
> 
> > The step it's having trouble with is PCMCIA Services. Before
installing 
> > Fedore I gave the Slax LiveCD a try and had the same problem.
Everything 
> > worked fine once I booted Slax without PCMCIA, but with Fedora I'm not

> > entirely sure how to boot with parameters(?).
> > 
> > I assume my eMachines laptop (umm, it was cheap.. what can I say) has

> > obscure hardware or there's something else I'm doing wrong. Any help
is much 
> > appreciated.
> > 
> > My system:
> > 
> > eMachines M6805
> > AMD Mobile Athlon 64 3000+
> > on Fedora Core 2 x86_64
> 
> > Corn
> 
> http://www.ckloiber.com/
> 
> Chris Kloiber is a Redhat guy and normally contributes here nicely. He
> may comment your efforts when he watches your mailing, maybe he is just
> busy at the moment. I don't know whether there are specific x86_64
> issues with your eMachines Laptop. I just found quickly
> 
> http://www.linuxtx.org/amd64faq.html
> 
> and there the first Q/A.
> 
> On how to boot Fedora with parameters you'll find some useful hints at
> 
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/ --> 13.  Q: Other Miscellanous Issues
> (Alan Cox's Notes)
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
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