Description of Problem: Have a Compaq Armada M700 and Lucent Orinoco card. If the laptop battery runs out while the card is in and the machine is on. The pcmcia card manager locks up on reboot. When the machine is booting you get the normal yenta-socket message and then the boot just stops there. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Standard RH 8.0 release. How Reproducible: Consistently Steps to Reproduce: 1. Laptop and pcmcia card in and running 2. Power loss (whether from battery running out or just straight pulling the battery, the result is the same) 3. When booting the laptop after this the pcmcia manager hangs during the boot Actual Results: Boot gets to the yenta-socket message and stops. Expected Results: Boot up should continue normally. Additional Information: I'm using the redhat 8.0 release and an Orinoco 802.11b card. To get the machine to boot, I boot up with the RH 8.0 install disc 1. type linux rescue. Once the machine comes up do chroot /mnt/sysimage and then /etc/init.d/pcmcia start This will hang so after a few seconds do ctrl-c. exit twice to get the laptop to reboot and everything works again.
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