Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 104666
Installer hangs when it tryes to detect PCMCIA card bus on laptop
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:57:39 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Boot from CD works. It goes into the installer and when it starts detecting the PCMCIA card bus (i say card bus because there are no cards in the slot) it doesn't get any further. I've also tried using the no auto detect option in the installer, and it gives me the same problem. I am tring to install this on a New (as of Augest, 2003) laptop. Info on System Components in 'Additional Information'. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from RH Linux Install CD 1. 2. Run annaconda in any mode. 3. Wait untill it tries to detect the PCMCIA Bus. Additional info: I baught this laptop through American Computech, Inc. but they keep sending me to www.uniwill.com for accesories, drivers, and such. At that website, it looks like model 'N251C2'. It has an AMD Athlon XP Mobile 2500+ CPU, 2x 256Mb DDR333 PC2700 SODIMM RAM, 30Gb EIDE Hard Drive (10Gb left for Linux, Win2K already installed). **One odd thing I noticed in Win2K: When I have a PC card in the one slot available, it reads it at 'CardBus Slot 4' rather than 0. This could indicate that the computer has other stuff attached to the PCMCIA Card Bus, but I wouldn't know how, why, or what.
I would recommend downloading and trying the Red Hat Linux 9 release which is much newer.
You changed the status to NEEDINFO, does that mean that you want me to add some sort of info from me?
Sorry - yes what would help is if you could try out Red Hat Linux 9 and see if it helps. It should have better support for newer hardware.
After time taken for downloading and burning the Red Hat 9 CD's, and me being lazy (sorry), I have successfully installed and used Red Hat 9. I still wonder why 8 wouldn't work, but problem solved.