** Reply to message from Anders Johansson on Thu, 13 May 2004 00:25:24 +0200

On Thursday 13 May 2004 00.15, Gil Weber wrote:

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Yenta_socket???? What is that?

A yenta is a match maker. And if you want to stick your little thingy into the little hole, such a thing is needed, no? :)

Specifically, it's a driver for several types of PCMCIA cards. One table that shows what it handles is at

http://www-oss.fnal.gov/projects/fermilinux/731/pcmciatable.html

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I also was advised by SuSE (San Francisco) to try typing "nopcmcia=1" as the boot option at start up. That did not help. I also tried this in "safe" mode. That also did not help. In both cases SuSE still hung at "Starting PCMCIA."

Did you try "NOHOTPLUG=1"?

Anders, thanks for reply. Unfortunately "nohotplug=1" did not help in either regular or "safe" mode. Still hangs at "Starting PCMCIA." However, this time I observed an additional item in both cases (I don't know if this was there previously or if it's only now appeared with the new "nohotplug=1" boot option). The shutdown line I just noticed says "Module PCMCIA core is in use." And as for yenta=match-maker. ;o) Wife and I are rolling on the floor laughing. Even in Scandanavia you have yentas??? ;o) Gil

** Reply to message from Anders Johansson on Thu, 13 May 2004 00:52:11 +0200

On Thursday 13 May 2004 00.47, Gil Weber wrote:

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** Reply to message from Anders Johansson on Thu, 13

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Did you try "NOHOTPLUG=1"?

Anders, thanks for reply. Unfortunately "nohotplug=1" did not help in either regular or "safe" mode.

From looking at the hotplug script, it looks like case is important, so try "NOHOTPLUG=1" instead of "nohotplug=1"

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OK, Anders. I tried "NOHOTPLUG=1" and that did let the pooter get past "Starting PCMCIA." However.... :o) Still problems. After going past the place where it had been hanging the CD loaded until the screen displayed: "linux login:" And there it sat. So I typed "linux" and pressed ENTER. It then displayed: "Have a lot of fun" and then "linux@linux:~" That seemed so promising but again it just sat. So I typed: "startx" and I got the following: "No link to /var/X11R6/bin/X to the correct X server binary. Please confirm the correct X server with SaX/SaX2 which will create the missing link. I'm aborting now." And then it just sat... and it sat.... and it sat... Seems as if we're getting closer, but still something preventing the CD from loading completely. Thx. :o) Gil

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 18:51, James Knott wrote:

Common problem. That Live Eval CD is broken. I've tried it on 3 computers and it failed on all of 'em.

Really? Hmmm I got it work on two.... Comes all the way up into a desktop 'n everything. Must'a been a fluke.... or is that a t-fluke? `*8> -- Brad Shelton On Line Exchange http://www.ole.net Phone: 313-526-1111 Fax: 313-526-3333

James Knott wrote:

here and on the newsgroups, plenty of others are having similar problems.

It's BUSTED!!! Not entirely. I tried it on an Asus with P3 733 MHz and it seemed to work fine. I haven't tried lots of things yet but at least it booted and got to the desktop.

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