> Am Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2004 19:49 schrieb Karen Loiselet: > > Hi all, > > after a successful installation of debian on an old desktop k6-2 I decide > > to migrate my inspiron 8100 laptop to debian (currently I run mandrake). > > But now I have some freeze problems during installation procedure. I've > > googlelised and read linux-laptop with the only result of booting with bf24 > > noapic video16:off but this still doesn't work. Anybody have encounter the > > same problem and find a solution? Thanks to all > > Karen > > I guess you run into trouble with PCMCIA at the hardware detect, check out > the > HOWTOS at: > > http://tuxmobil.org/dell.html > > You can look at the docs for i8000 and i8100 since there are only minor > differences (as far as I know ;-) > > cheers, Manfred
On my i8000 I have this in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts: exclude port 0x800-0x90f -- echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln56%1F+Pln56/snlbx]sb23C15C85417484EC5E429FD9776Asnlbx|dc;\ echo 16i[APq]sa[ln0=aln5C%1F+Pln5C/snlbx]sb72E28557F7FE184112F53F5FFDsnlbx|dc