Oops! Messed up PCI!

Bob McClure Jr robertmcclure at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 3 23:18:36 UTC 2005


On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 03:12:09PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> 
> >
> >> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 07:39 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> >>> During a yumex update last night, my HP zv6000 laptop stopped
> >>> responding. The screensaver asked for the password, then said
> >>> "checking..." and sat there a very long time. I finally shut down the
> >>> power to try to get control back. Now, on reboot, I'm getting messages
> >>> similar to the following:
> >>>
> >>> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:04.0
> >>> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:04.0
> >>>
> >>> Not available because of resource collisions.
> >>>
> >>> So, now my ndis wireless does not work. Is there a way to get this
> >>> working without doing a re-install of FC4?
> >>
> >> Is the network card built in or is it a PCMCIA thingie?  This sure
> >> smells of a hardware fault.  If it's a PCMCIA card, unplug it and plug
> >> it back in.  If it's built-in, I'd try to reseat your memory cards in
> >> the machine.  They're usually available under a cover somewhere on the
> >> bottom of the system.
> >>
> >
> >
> > It's an internal thing, part of the HP laptop. I'll mess with it and see
> > what I can find.
> >
> > THANKS!
> >
> > Harold
> >
> 
> Well, I could not find a hardware problem, so I just did a complete
> re-install of FC4, set up ndiswrapper, installed the ATI driver, etc. and
> IT WORKS! So, I dunno what the crash during the update a couple nights ago
> did, but it sure messed it up! By the way, ATI has a new 64 bit driver
> instaler that works very nicely on this machine!
> 
> Now that this is working, it'd be nice to burn a DVD image so I could
> always get back to here. Anything like that exist?
> 
> THANKS for all the help over the years!
> 
> Harold

growisofs may well do what you want.  It's what I use for backups, but
I'm backing up bzip2-ed cpio gaggles.  Dunno how to do an image.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
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