Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 & Linux
From: Mark Brady (mbrady@infowave.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 21:27:18 GMT+1
gary_n@my-deja.com wrote:
> Check the rest of the posts in this thread, one guy appears to have got
> it working correctly on the 8000 !
>
> In article <3A2D665D.37051D0B@NO_SPAM.amis.com>,
> Mark Holbrook <Mark_Holbrook@amis.com> wrote:
> > I have a Dell I8k/700/256M/32G/14.1"/DVD/Xircom cardbus 10/100/V90
> running
> > SuSE Linux.
> >
> > The first thing I have found is that you need pcmcia utils rev 3.1.22
> or
> > greater or the kernel will freeze when loading pcmcia modules.
> >
> > I can not get X working. Anyone who has, please tell me the details
> such
> > as:
> >
> > 1. What version of X?
> > 2. Any vga= values in /etc/lilo.conf
> > 3. A copy of your XF86Config
> > 4. Any other magic things you did to get it to work.
> >
> > You can email me by removing the NO_SPAM at:
> >
> > holbrook@NO_SPAM.amis.com
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > gshipley@my-deja.com wrote:
> > >
> > > It appears that the problem is the cardbus/pcmcia controller.
> > >
> > > The i8000 has a Texas Instruments PCI-4451 which gives a kernel
> panic
> > > when trying to boot into linux. I don't know if this is supported
> or
> > > not. To get around it just mount your file system from a recovery
> disk
> > > and rm /etc/rc.d/initd/pcmcia and then do a 'touch pcmcia'.
> > >
> > > This will let you use linux with full x-support but no pcmcia which
> > > means no network which mean sucks.
> > >
> > > In article <3A0C03AE.DAA9128@canb.auug.org.au>,
> > > gmorph@canb.auug.org.au wrote:
> > > > Does anyone have any experience running linux on the Dell Inspiron
> > > > 8000? It appears to have the Intel 815 chipset which I believe
> > > > shouldn't be a problem. However the video card is an ATI
> Mobility M4
> > > > which I have never heard of before. I checked the XFree86 pages
> and
> > > > there was no mention of it being supported.
> > > >
> > > > Any thoughts/ideas/opinions very welcome.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Grant Morphett
> > > > GMORPH CONSULTANTS Pty Ltd - Solutions Outside the Square
i see you got the pcmcia card stuff working on your Dell I8k,
i'm using card utils 3.1.22 (debian) but i still get the freeze.
i can load all the modules (ds, pcmcia_core, i82365) and cardcrl works
fine,
but when cardmgr starts up -> boom.
could you send me you /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and your cardmgr and module
launch script for me to look at.
And hey, did you get the Xircom Cardbus EtherII 10/1000 CBE2-100 working
too?
Sorry i can't help you with X yet, but i suspect you'll need a new Mach64
server.
thanx
Mark Brady
ps: this look intresting too (from 'pcmcia-cs 3.1.22 causing lockups'
thread in comp.os.linux.portables)
> H. Wade Minter wrote:
>
> > I'm using the pcmcia 3.1.22 package on my Red Hat Linux 6.2 system, to
> > take
> > advantage of its Aironet 4800 support. I had been using the pcmcia-cs
> > that comes with 6.2 (3.1.8, I think) without any problems. The kernel
> > is Red Hat's update to 2.2.16.
> >
> > I installed 3.1.22 without any problems. However, a strange thing is
> > happening. If I boot the Compaq Armada M700 laptop with a pcmcia card
> > already
> > in a slot, it gets detected and initialized without problems. However,
> > when I remove the card and either put that one in again or put another one
> > in, the machine immediately freezes. I have to hard-boot to get it to
> > restart.
>
> I had similar problems with several kernel versions. It always helped to
> recompile the PCMCIA package, you may also need to stop the
> card before removing ist -> see cardinfo.
>
> Michael
>
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