Crashes Armada 1750

Justin Eastham <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:13:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

Finally got round to buying some bizcard CDR's, and burnt
version 2.1 of LNX-BBC.

Booted it up on a Compaq Armada 1750 laptop (P2 333, 128Mb RAM)
and as soon as you probe for PCMCIA / Cardbus cards, the system
enters trace mode (loads of numbers sandwiched between a '<' and a '>')

Sorry, can't reproduce the problem at the moment, the laptop is busy
building some Apps for Gentoo.

I can tell you that the Cardbus controller is a :

Texas Instruments PCI-1225 Cardbus controller

Sorry I'm being vague, but I didn't have much time to play with LNX-BBC,
and I'm going from memory (from last week) as I can't reproduce the problem
at the moment.

Basically, I booted up the CD (pretty much with default settings), and it
crashed before completing the boot-up. So, I rebooted, and this time I
turned off the hardware discovery (forget the option/syntax), and it
booted fine, and gave me a login prompt. Found that the Ethernet card
wasn't being seen, so ran the relevant command to scan the Cardbus
interface, and as soon as I did, I experienced the problem detailed above.

Sorry I can't be more specific right now........I've not subscribed to the
mailing list, as I get too much email (100+ a day) as it is.

If you need to ask questions..........send me a mail, and I'll see what
I can do.

Cheers, and thanks for a nice compact distro

Justin