[WBEL-users] PCMCIA taking for - ev - er to initialize (and other boot issues on WBEL4)

[Daniel J. Summers]

When I boot up this laptop, it does a few funky things.  The first is 
that when it gets to initializing PCMCIA, it takes so long that rhgb 
pops up the virtual console, and then, if I'm cold-booting, it will 
actually switch back to the text-based console.  Once it starts 
successfully (as it does, eventually), rhgb comes back up with its 
graphical boot, and all is fine.  Should it take that long?

The second issue is an error I see just before the "Red Hat nash 
x.x..x.x starting...".  It says "powernow-k8: vid trans failed 0x01, 
0x02", then on the next line, "powernow-k8: frequency transition 
failed".  Any ideas what that means?  Is this causing other problems 
(like PCMCIA taking a while to load)?

Thanks - just for fun, here's the output from /sbin/lspci...  (It may 
wrap - a similar, unwrapped output can be found at 
http://www.djs-consulting.com/linux/averatec_6200.php .)

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL 
Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller 
(rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 
Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI 
Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller 
(rev 01)
00:0e.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus 
Reference Card (rev 01)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 
661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP

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