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Dell Inspiron 8100 pcmcia services broke after "aptitude upgrade"



I've installed Libranet (debian) on my friends Dell Inspiron 8100
laptop, using a Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 +56K Modem

The install went fine, and I set everything up as he wanted.

The network was working, so we could get on my Internet access.

I then ran "aptitude update", followed by "aptitude upgrade:, and this
is where things went down hill.

After dpkg/aptitude started installing the updated files, it got to
the "pcmcia-cs" updated file, and it promptly hung than machine. I
couldn't change screens <alt-F1/alt-F2,etc), which forced a reboot.

I finished getting the upgrades installed, by purging the pcmcia-cs
from the install process "dpkg --purge pcmcia-cs"

All of the correct modules are being loaded, but when I attempt to run
"/etc/init.d/pcmcia start', the process just hangs, sitting at this
message;

Starting PCMCIA Services: Intel PCIC probe: Not Found
using yenta_socket instead of i82365
cs: cb_alloc (bus 3):vendor 0x115d, device 0x0003
PCI: Enabling device 03:00.0 (0000 -> 0x0003)
eth0: Xircom CardBus revision 3 at irq 10
PCI: Enabling device 03:00.1 (0000 -> 0003)
ttyS04 at port 0x4080 (irq = 10 ) is a 16550A
cardmgr[408]: watching 2 sockets
cs: IO probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean
cs: IO probe 0x0800-0x08ff:

And that is where it just sits.

I'm trying to get him off of windos xp.

I booted into Knoppix 3.3, and configured the laptop for my LAN, and
internet access, that works as advertised

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

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