William Shank on Sat, 20 Oct 2001 16:07:47 -0400


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RE: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...


 
can someone tell me how to disable pcmcia probing? that is the exact problem
i have with mandrake 8.1, it get's to the configuring pcmcia devices screeen
and locks up.

thanks


-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Nocks
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: 10/19/01 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...

I downloaded the "jogdial" applet off of sourceforge. It works OK. I
can't 
even download Windows 2000 drivers for the thing. I'm running with the
stock 
kernel from Mandrake 8.0 on my Vaio Z505 (2.4.3 I think? - I'm on my
desktop 
at the moment. And the notebook is packed up in the car for a weeklong
triip).

The only goofy thing I had to do to get things loaded, besides what's
been 
mentioned so far, is to disable probing PCMCIA when booting for the
initial 
install. I think the install kept getting a panic until I did that. And,
that 
was with an external Sony DVD-ROM drive (which is mostly an overly
expensive 
CD-ROM drive under Linux for the moment).

Good luck,
-Jason Nocks

On Friday 19 October 2001 04:45 pm, you wrote:
> damn sony.  nice little laptops but they're pretty proprietary.  do
you
> have a little wheel on the lower right part of the keyboard?  i found
out
> there are drivers for that too under kernel 2.4.10.
>
> sure, we can get together to install off the sony cdrom sometime.
next
> week?  how did you end with a non-sony cdrom?
>
> stephen
>
> -- My name is not leroy
>

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