Bug#256374: Installation hangs on Compaq Presario 1220 while loading module 'ide-cd' during hardware detection for the CD-ROM drive (beta4, i386, linux26)

[Per Olofsson <pelle@dsv.su.se>]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 19:54 -0300, Robin Blondon wrote:
> In the installer, I found that instead of ejecting and reinserting the 
> card I can go into the shell and kill and restart cardmgr. The 
> intstaller then detected the card after choosing to detect network 
> hardware from the installer menu.

Hrm... strange. It could be because the installer first lacks the
necessary modules and then fails to restart cardmgr properly when the
modules are available. What if you choose detect network hardware a
second time without killing and restarting cardmgr? And, by the way,
do you have a Cardbus card or a 16-bit card?

> The first set of messages are:
> Configuring network interfaces...Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" 
> (8B1A):
> SET failed on device eth0 ; No such device.
> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
> SET failed on device eth0 ; No such device.
> Error for wireless "Set Mode" (8B06) :
> SET failed on device eth0 ; No such device.

Actually, the card should not be brought up by this init script. It
should be brought up by cardmgr or hotplug. This means that the
installer failed to recognise that the network interface was a PCMCIA
card and thus erroneously added an "auto eth0" line to
/etc/network/interfaces.

> The second set of messages after starting PCMCIA services are:
> /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o: 
> init_module: No such device
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, 
> including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
> You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o: insmod 
> /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o: indmos 
> yenta_socket failed

The problem here is probably that yenta_socket isn't the right
module. Could you try loading i82365 instead? The pcmcia-cs package
should have detected this but maybe something went wrong.

> Is there anything else I should try?

You could check the logs during the installation, i.e. "grep cardmgr
/var/log/syslog".

-- 
Pelle