If you are not using PCMCIA, then I would suggest recompiling the kernel without PCMCIA support included in it. Stephen Dawes <B.A., B.Sc.> The City of Calgary Web Business Office Ph: (403) 268-5527 FX: (403) 268-6423 Mailto: stephen.dawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca > WWW: http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca FOIPP NOTIFICATION This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient named above or a person responsible for delivering messages or communications to the intended recipient, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any use, distribution, or copying of this communication or any of the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and then destroy or delete this communication, or return it to us by mail if requested by us. Thank you for your attention and co-operation. -----Original Message----- From: Charles Hallenbeck [mailto:chuckh@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 2001 December 12 12:42 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: two steps forward one step back Hi Tony - I just spent some time with a sighted friend slogging through the setup program menus and have made some progress here. First of all the boot sequence needed to be fixed. Now I can boot from a floppy okay. Second, when DOS failed, the error message was from the memory manager about a faulty device driver. Since I could now run DOS from a floppy I simply remarked out the line that loaded my scanner interface card and deleted the "exclude" phrase on the memory manager line. Now I can boot into DOS on the HD just fine too. I took the "auto" off the IRQ referring to my external modem serial port and selected the "EISA/ISA" choice, but the modem already worked okay anyway with "auto" there. It still works okay. But I still have a problem sometimes when booting my Linux system. It always boots up okay from a power off condition. And it also boots up okay if I do a "shutdown -r" command as root. But it will not load correctly if I do a "shutdown -h" as root and then hit the reset button (or do alt-ctrl-del) to try booting back up. And I get the same failure when running loadlin from DOS. Both these failures are new - they worked fine before the CPU upgrade, and there have been no software changes or HD modifications that could account for them. The failures always occur at the same place - just after the lines that show several components of PPP being registered, and immediately prior to a line referencing PCMCIA. At least when it DOES run to completion, the PCMCIA line follows the PPP lines in the bootup message sequence. I am convinced there must still be something to change in the setup program, but I have not the foggiest clue as to what it might be. When the boot failures occur, there is no speech, no keyboard entries are possible, and no error messages appear on the screen. The hard reset button still works, and when it next boots properly there is no forced disk check resulting from the hanging condition. But at least my DOS works and I can pay my bills, even if I cannot put this powerhouse to work on the scanner. Thanks for all your suggestions. Chuck On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Tony Baechler wrote: > Hi. You could try making sure plug and play is off in BIOS. This might > read something like "plug and play OS support" or something. You might > also make sure that the serial port assignments are not set to > "auto." Just manually set them to the correct IRQ and set the BIOS to > manual so it does not change them. Good luck. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Crescent (5% of Full) _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
