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Redhat Install Fix for OHCI1394 Firewire trouble

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7/20/03 at 11:04pm
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Saw many people posting with trouble installing Redhat on Sager laptops. I did find a boot style that works. By typing

linux nousb nopcmcia noprobe

the install continues without hangs or hitch. However I still have not found a way to get it to run once installed. It always hangs somewhere, even when I bypass the hanging lines in <I> mode. It seems to stick the most on the pcmcia stuff with the Yenta and Socket 30000006. Any help is appreciated.
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post #2 of 2
7/20/03 at 11:22pm
Just a few minutes ago I figured out what was hanging up the default Slackware 9 install for me in the PCMCIA init. Turned out that the probe (the default option) hit a problematic PCIC before hitting the right one.

In the slackware install the script /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia has the following near the top:

HTML Code:
    PCIC=probe
#   PCIC=i82365
#   PCIC=tcic
#   PCIC=yenta_socket
It seemed to hang after probing tcic, so I changed it to:

HTML Code:
#   PCIC=probe
#   PCIC=i82365
#   PCIC=tcic
    PCIC=yenta_socket
which seemed to fix everything.

Note: this was with the default 2.4.20 kernel. I have been experimenting with the 2.6.0-test1 kernel and this kernel boots fine with all the default scripts in place.

The other problem for my default Slackware install was something in the hotplug configuration and I just disabled this script (mv /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug.disabled) which prevented the hang.

Oh yeah, my system is a 4760 (I am finding out that there are a lot of differences; some things that are PCI on the 5670 are USB on the 4760.) I don't know how useful this is to you on Redhat but hope it helps.
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