Distribution: Mandrake 10 (b2, rc1, CE), Fedora2-test1 Hardware Environment: IBM Thinkpad A22m and Fedora2-test1 Software Environment: 2.6.1-2.6.3 Problem Description: Won't boot, hang at PCI Steps to reproduce: Full details: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7947 Basically, it seems to hang here: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision 1.90$ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A PCI: Found IRQ11 for device 0000:00:03.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with device 0000:00:03.0 The PCI device where it hangs seems to be the Intel PRO/100 SP Mobile Combo adapter. I've tried MANY things to get it to boot (kernel options), with no success and not only that but any other recent distro I try now seem to have problems. A very strange phenomenon: after an unsuccessful boot, if I poweroff the computer, it will poweron by itself less then an hour later!! I would say HW problem, but W2K works fine on this one and memtest gave out nothing.
Finally tried something I should have done long ago... I opened the back panel of the laptop and carefully removed the network card board. With the NIC removed, everything boots fine now, no problem! If I put it back, it gets stuck at the same place So I can confirm that the problem is related to kernel 2.6 and the Intel PRO/100 SP Mobile Combo Adapter (P/N 06P3819). I doubt the NIC itself is defective because it works in W2K. Still no clue what happenned in 2.6 that it would do this.
Is it a pcmcia/cardbus adapter?
There is a PCMCIA/CardBus in that laptop: CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 But the NIC itself in inside the computer and I think it is directly connected to the PCI bus. I don't have anything in my PCMCIA slot.
Ok so it's a mini PCI adapter, at this point, do you have any kernel which will boot on that system? If so which?
Can you reproduce