respawning and no pcmcia

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

I've recently done a clean wipe/reinstall of Debian on an old Sager 486
laptop. Before the rebuild my dialup worked fine; now I have a couple of
issues.

First, the PCMCIA stuff is not starting automatically. I don't really
understand the bootup process and modules, etc, but I have figured out
that I can manually run "/etc/init.d/pcmcia stop" followed by 
"/etc/init.d/pcmcia start" and the "pon" command then works and I can
dial-up.

But this then introduces the second problem. About ten seconds or so after
doing the "start", I get a screenload of what looks like an error starting
a getty along with the one-line explanation of syntax for the command.
Then at the bottom I get an error to the effect of "INIT ID 'S' respawning 
too fast: disabled for 5 minutes". Then about 5 minutes later it happens
again. If I do a "/etc/init.d/pcmcia stop", the problem goes away (of
course, so does my ability to dial-up, also).

I don't know enough about what files/logs/etc the list readers need to
see, but I'd appreciate any help on getting these two issues fixed.

Thanx!

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Kent West
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