On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 02:44, Tor Houghton wrote: > Did the machine hang with something like this? > > pcic_wait_ready: ready never happened, status = 4c > > (And is your laptop a Dell, by any chance?) It wasn't a laptop. It was an old 486 using the Orinoco PCI/PCMCIA adapter. But that was the error message I got, yes.