Toshibia and reboot

Shades3D · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 39

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Recently I setup my Toshiba Satellte 1800/1805 series (I forgot which, the one with the 1.1GHz Celeron coppermine and the Trident CyberbladeXP in it) and got everything working after a few days (including the frame buffer and my wifi card, which was an interesting learning experience for me

). I found out that when I rebooted, to my amazement, the Toshiba reboot bug was gone. I could actually REBOOT. I had heard about awhile ago that Toshiba's would just halt instead of rebooting, so you'd have to cycle the laptop's power to get it back.

Now comes my problem. When I reboot the toshiba, it reboots as it should, showing the Toshiba logo, then when it kicks over to the main HDD to load grub, nothing. It sits there with a blinking cursor and does nothing. I have to manually reboot the machine again for grub to come up. Anyone got any ideas as to why this might be happening?

EDIT: Oh, on another less important note with my wifi card. Anyway to get pcmcia-cs pointed to wlan0 instead of eth1? I like to actually label what kind of connection it is so I can look at ifconfig later and be able to say "Oh, thats my wireless lan!" :p
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shawnchr · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 1 Location: KCK

Your problem could be that you APIC loading in the kernel it causes issues like that. Also how did you get your wifi working and what kind are you using.

Lorijho · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 38 Location: Luxembourg

Hi there,

I'm running Gentoo on a Toshiba Satellite 1800 Series too, and i noticed exactly the same Reboot Bug as described by you.
It is even worth under SuSE , you actually don't see the Toshiba Welcome Screen, it hangs before that...
And furthermore, Compiling on this platform is really a pain in the ass !

sanchan · Retired Dev Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 74

I've a Toshiba Satellite 1800-100 and I've the same problem. I've also other two problems...
1) The internal modem don't work: as it seems to be a Lucent Scorpio, and the sound card is an ALI 5451, it seems to be not supported... Recently ltmodem says it may works, but I can't figure out how...
2) The IRDA system don't work... irda.sf.net provide a few workarounds but they are for 2.4.x kernel series, not for 2.6.x.

If someone got to work the modem or the irda under 2.6.x series or 2.4.x series can send here the correct procedure to do that?
(sorry for my english)

F16PilotJumper · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 3:32 pm Post subject:

That's no good, I'm getting a 1805-S207 off of my mom in two weeks (she upgraded) and I just put in an order for a wifi card and more memory.

I never used a modem for anything anyway (LAN at home as well) but no working sound would be a bummer.

EDIT: Aparently CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT or a similar option (old info so it might have changed, but i doubt the feature was removed) gets the sound working.

sanchan · Retired Dev Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 74

[quote="F16PilotJumper"]
EDIT: Aparently CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT or a similar option (old info so it might have changed, but i doubt the feature was removed) gets the sound working.[/quote]

I must be not so clear in what I said. The soud card works perfectly with the ALI 5451 alsa sound driver. It works also with the old trident-ali oss driver.
What I want to say is that the Lucent Scorpio doesn't work with the Ali 5451 sound chipset, but it seems to work with the yamaha sound chip in the same 1800-x line of toshiba notebook. I've read something about the possibility to use the yamaha driver also if the chip is not installed for getting the slmodem driver work (toshiba technical assistence for linux).
(sorry for my english)