also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> [2001.12.26.1831 +0100]: > kernel: cs: cb_allow(bus 32): vendor 0x115d, device 0x0003 > cardmgr: initializing socket 0 > kernel: ROM image dump: > cs: cb_config(bus 32) > cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x290-0x297 0x378-0x37f > 0x4d0-0x4d7 > cs: IO port probe 0x0298-0x0377: clean. > cs: IO port probe 0x0380-0x04cf: clean. > cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean. > cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff:_ > > the final '_' is the blinking cursor, and it just hangs there > forever. completely frozen. mh. a line exclude port 0x0800-0x08ff in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts fixed that problem, and i am online. this is weird though. does anyone know why the latitude C800 has something in this port range, which dell doesn't document, and which the internet doesn't know about? or is this just another "feature" of dell to make linux hard? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck micro$oft windoze: proof that p. t. barnum was correct.
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