URGENT: WPC54G / Toshiba / FC3 (Forget it!)

[Lotsa Cabo]

Man, whomever made the call to make the ACPI changes in FC3 should 
be... well... AAARGH!  I've just wasted a considerable amount of time 
on FC3 and... huh?  What's that!??!  I'm back on FC2!  AARGH!

Along with trying to deal with APCI and FC3, I've done a ton of reading 
on the subject.  I did find the occasional, "Holy crap... it worked!"  
However, 99.99999% of every other thread, readme, and blog was 
regarding countless problems.  And, ironically, none of them had a 
solution (i.e., patch, update, etc.) other than simply disabling ACPI.

Pathetic... simply pathetic.

R/S
Ryan

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On Dec 11, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Lotsa Cabo wrote:

> Okay, I'm about to loose my mind.  Please help.  Here are the facts...
>
> Installing FC3 on a Toshiba Satellite 5005-S507... clean install.
> When booting from CD, the machine hangs after "/sbin/loader".  I can 
> get by this if I add "acpi=off" to the boot options.
> So, I installed with the "acpt=off" boot option and the OS comes up.  
> I now have two problems.
>
> PROBLEM #1: MANUAL SHUTDOWN REQUIRED
> When I shut down the machine, FC3 shuts down without any errors.  
> However, instead of powering off, I get the "Power Off" message as the 
> last message on the console.  This is more disappointing than anything 
> and is not, per se, a "problem," but it should not be this way.  It 
> worked fine with FC2.
>
> PROBLEM #2: LINUXANT DRIVERLOADER
> I own a copy of DriverLoader and it worked fine with FC2.  However, 
> under FC3, I get "no devices detected" errors (or similar).  Since I 
> am disabling the "ACPI" on boot, I cannot help but think of it but I 
> doubt that's where I should be looking.  Has something changed in 
> PCMCIA?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Be gentle, newbie at the controls.
>
> Thanx,
> Ryan
>
>
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