On 28 Apr 2003 22:00:13 -0400 Bernie Gardner <bernie.gardner@verizon.net> wrote:

This is a continuation of a request for advice from last night. Something seems to have happened to the pcmcia system on my laptop (Toshiba satelite 1905). I installed 8.2 on it with little difficulty. However, while downloading pictures from a smart media card with a pcmcia card reader, the system crashed. Now it will boot if pcmcia is disabled, but will hang if I attempt to start pcmcia either at boot or with rcpcmcia. Also, trying to set up a network card with yast results in a system hang at the 77% point (starting network) after pressing the finish button. The network cards (one wireless and one wired) are built in, but may be on the pcmcia system. After further checking I'm thinking the problem is a hardware failure, but would like to check it a bit further before taking it for repair (which I'm afraid will require reinstalling windows xp...) I would appreciate any trouble shooting suggestions, including how to find the details of what yast is doing when it tries to set up the network card.

I would first try to reinstall the PCMCIA rpm and see if it fixes it. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation