The IRQ used for the hard drive and the wireless card is one and the same. You dont need that. You need separate IRQs for the HD and the wireless card.You need to block that IRQ from being captured by the PCMCIA controller.
look at 'dmesg' and start with the IRQs of your IDE controller. Do the same with cardmgr or the cardutils.
Usually IRQ 11 is set aside for the PCMCIA controller but you are having a conflict with IRQ 7.
Somehow, you have to correct the IRQ steering so your hard drive does not disappear.
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: "Paul W. Abrahams"
Subj: [SLE] Laptop / wireless card problem with HD detection
Date: Sun Nov 6, 2005 7:12 pm
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
It seems that the installation CD for 10.0 doesn't work on my laptop (a Dell
Inspiron 1000) if the wireless card is inserted into the slot; the hard drive
can't be detected. Even the rescue system has the problem; "fdisk /hda" says
that the disk is unreadable. (Windows has no similar problem.) What's more,
with the system installed, shutdown, or even switching users in KDE, hangs up
if the wireless card is inserted. Somehow the presence of that card seems to
confuse Linux (the kernel, probably) very badly.
Has anyone else seen this behavior? I can get around the problem by
withdrawing the card, but that shouldn't be necessary.
Paul
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