I had the same problem with an old TI laptop. I had to tell a range of addresses to skip over during the probe. I found this by doing a search for the name of the machine on the net for issues with pcmcia. Kelly Black On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:36:03PM -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote: > Andrew Nemchenko wrote: > > > The thing is is that I have tried just taking the card out and it still > > > > frezes at pcmcia at boot up. > > I had a problem like this too, turns out the probing for available IO > space that PCMCIA did was hanging this particular laptop hard. The > solution was to turn off all the resource probing. But of course I > couldn't find any way to do this in RedHat's install so I installed > slackware, which had the same problem but at least I could hack the boot > disk and fix it. I think I still have a copy of the config somewhere... > > But the latest PCMCIA doesn't seem to have this problem anymore anyway, > at least on this laptop...