Quote Originally Posted by Uwe Brauer
while I had no problems booting and installing 3.3 on my IBM R40 (e) Laptop
when I try to use 3.4 or 3.6 I receive the following msg:
ACPI BIOS found act modules ....
PCMCIA found starting cardmgr

and then the Laptops hangs.



Uwe Brauer
Try
knoppix26 acpi=off
should work with 2.4 kernel as well.