boot stalls after trying to enable PCMCIA

[josephian]

I've been running Fedora 2 for a few months and everything was running fine. Then all of a sudden, it won't boot anymore. It gets stuck during the boot process after printing out these two lines:

Starting pcmcia: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.1 (0000 -> 0002)

There's no error message, so I'm not sure if it has anything to do with PCMCIA. I'm running a Dell Inspiron 8200. I'd really appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!

[mrguytx]

do you have anything actually plugged into the pcmcia slot when booting?
if so, try removing it.
if not, try inserting it first before booting.

[dukevegan]

I am now getting the same error message when I try to boot. I have a Dell D600. The last thing that I remember doing (that could've possibly caused this) was my changing the MAC address.
Please help!

[mark53]

I'm having the same problem with a Dell C600. After setting up my wireless card it started. Any solutions yet?

PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:0003.1 (0000 -> 0002)

My guess is pcmcia card manager is tying to install the same device twice.

[mark53]

I got mine working again by doing a combination things. First edit /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia. Change the following option to...

PCIC_OPTS="do_scan=0"

If that doesn't work try...

PCIC_OPTS="irq_list=5,9,11"

You may have to try different irq combinations until you find one that works.

If that doesn't work than edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.

replace
include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0xc00-0xcff

with
include port 0x200-0x4ff, port 0xc00-0xcff

or...

include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff

Hope that helps!
Mark