Hi! The problem: can't boot the machine with anything but 'external' PCMCIA, using 'kernel' it freezes during boot. Using 'external' allows me to boot the machine but adding a PCMCIA card freezes the machine imediately. Have seen the support notice "PCMCIA:The boot process hangs" at suse.com, and tried what it proposes, doesn't help. I can load pcmcia_core ( insmod pcmcia_core ), but am not able to load i82365 whatever parameters I try. I get one out of two answers (this is when I've defined PCMCIA=kernel in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and started linux with NOPCMCIA=yes) : #insmod i82365 irq_list=9,10 Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters or # insmod i82365 pci_int=0 Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.o: invalid parameter parm_pci_int I've tried just about every conceivable combination of IRQ's to no avail. I've also tried other parameters than pci_int but I get the same type of error message as for pci_int. Some hardware info: #lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio (rev 02) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (rev 78) 02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 # cat /proc/interupts CPU0 0: 155219 XT-PIC timer 1: 2444 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 2 XT-PIC rtc 11: 1378 XT-PIC eth0, usb-uhci, Intel ICH3 12: 17694 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 16955 XT-PIC ide0 15: 129 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 Any ideas anyone ?? -- Roland