[9fans] boot hanging ...

[Glenn Becker <burningc@sdf.lonestar.org>]

Hello all -

I recently added a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card to the array of crutches my old
laptop uses ... and have found that when I attempt to log on to my Plan 9
install, booting hangs with the following line

#U/usb0: uhci: port 0xBF80 irq 11

... if I leave the card (and by association what is plugged into
the card) plugged in). If I remove the card, no problem.

But I often forget to remove the card when I boot so was wondering what
sort of problem I have here and whether there is another way 'round it.

I am very slowly working my way into being able to actually do things in
Plan 9. :) It is like a blast of cold air on my age-ing brain, so that's a
good thing, I think.

One other note which I am loath to post but I have searched the 9fans list
and cannot find whatever resource/message I may have used before ...
graphics seem extremely sluggish on this box. IIRC I was told to adjust
the value of "dmamode" in plan9.ini ... but that may be incorrect, and I
have adjusted that value to "off" with little or no change.

In short things seem to re-paint quite slowly. This is on an old (ca 2001)
Dell laptop (Inspiron 4100, 997mHz PIII). I recall either posting about
this before or getting help from some other venue, but (all too obviously)
I didn't keep adequate notes.

Thanks for any pointers,

Glenn

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Glenn Becker - burningc@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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