how to disable pcmcia for 4.2.1retro?

[flugwelpe]

hi, one of my laptops has a freeze at boot time; it has a dead pcmcia device, so on some distros nopcmcia kernel option helped booting
i use a 4.2.1 live cd (with or without a usb-stick; no harddisk)

the freeze Manifests like this:
with the retro kernel, it boots until after 'Recognising media devices', keyboards works for some seconds, then the log spits out
cs:IO port probe 0x100-0x3af:
and the system (or only keyboard?) freezes
(that range ~could be pcmcia [dont know how to make sure] )

if i specify nocpcmcia, puppy still loads pcmcia module
'Waiting for modules to complete loading... pcmcia usb usb-storage'
according to my notes i solved this nopcmcia ignore with another distro(puppy?) like this:
i put a NOPCMCIA flag into /etc/void/rc.modules via remastering the cd; i tried with 4.2.1 to do the same by adding a rc.modules file with only a NOPCMCIA entry into a puppy save session on usb stick, but nothing is different...

the problem may also apply to 4.1 series
the machine works beautiful with 4.0

so how do i disable PCMCIA on puppy?
thanks,welpe

[Aitch]

Hi

I'm assuming boot from LiveCD

At the 5 second boot page, type:-

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Puppy pfix=ram nopcmcia

The pfix=ram is to ignore any previous attempts/save files

Is it not possible to disable the pcmcia device in bios?

Aitch

[flugwelpe]

Hi

I'm assuming boot from LiveCD

At the 5 second boot page, type:-

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Puppy pfix=ram nopcmcia

The pfix=ram is to ignore any previous attempts/save files

Is it not possible to disable the pcmcia device in bios?

Aitch

hey,

yip, booting from LiveCD

nopcmcia was the first thing i tried, but it seems to be ignored by puppy
(which seems to be a more grave issue than my box is not running)

i'm aware of possible problems with old data. So i made sure also to boot without any data-source but the live-cd

I checked the BIOS again, but there is no setting which could have an effect on pcmcia.

so no progress for my puppy here

[Aitch]

Maybe try a different puppymix

Have you thought of trying Big_Bass's Slaxer_Pup?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=41298

maybe the slackware kernel hardware recognition is better?

....or the nopcmcia option works?

Aitch

[flugwelpe]

Maybe try a different puppymix

Have you thought of trying Big_Bass's Slaxer_Pup?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=41298

maybe the slackware kernel hardware recognition is better?

....or the nopcmcia option works?

Aitch

same problem on the slackware kernel from Slaxer_Pup (nopcmcia doesnt seem to work; i see yenta output)

last output before freeze is still

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cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: