Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 536

26.3.1 Machine Crashes on PCMCIA
Your machine crashes when PCMCIA is started on boot. To find out what caused your
machine to crash, set it up manually as described below. In carefully setting up PCMCIA
manually, you can clearly identify the step or component that crashed your machine.
Once the culprit has been identified, you can circumvent the problematic step or com-
ponent.
To manually set up PCMCIA, proceed as follows:
1 Prevent PCMCIA from being started on system boot and enable option sysrq
2 Boot the system into a text-based environment and log in as root.
3 Add the appropriate PCMCIA modules to the kernel:
4 Start the PCMCIA socket:
5 If the previous step crashed your machine, this might have been caused by wrong
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for easier debugging by appending the following options to the boot prompt:
init=3 pcmcia=off sysrq=1
For more information about sysrq, refer to /usr/src/linux/
Documentation/sysrq.txt.
/sbin/modprobe yenta_socket
/sbin/modprobe pcmcia
/sbin/pcmcia-socket-startup N
Replace N with the number of the socket. Repeat this step for each socket.
I/O or memory ranges specified in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. To prevent
this, do one of the following:
• Exclude ranges in /ect/pcmcia/config.opts and retry the socket
setup.
• Add the ranges manually as described below.
After you successfully added the appropriate ranges manually, set them
permanently by including them in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.