Per Olofsson wrote: > There have been many reports of PCMCIA freezing during > installation. The reason for PCMCIA freezing is that the resource > ranges don't match the hardware. It's not possible to make the default > resource ranges work with all hardware (AFAIK) but I have noticed one > particularly problematic resource range: 0x800-0x8ff. This one causes > crashes on many common Dell laptops as well as other hardware types. > > The interesting thing about this range is that other distributions, > such as Redhat, has removed it from the defaults. The question is, > should we do the same? While it would deviate from the upstream > default, it would eliminate many freezes. I don't know what negative > effects it could have, though. I have mailed the upstream author and > asked about it but he hasn't replied - he's probably on vacation. What > do you think? I've noticed the dell problems as well. I suppose there's not a way to somehow autodetect these laptops by something else and change the resource range only there? -- see shy jo
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