I am running on a DELL with MDK 10.1 installed. Everything works perfectly (in contrast with Slackware 10.0). The only error that i get is when shutting down. The computer simply hangs and only the button helps shutting it down. I am using a Xircom CEM56 Ethernet/Modem.

The error is:

Trying to free non-existent resource: <000002e8-000002ef>

Then it hangs.

It is quite frustrating to take out the pcmcia card when not using for Internet connection.

Can't help you with a proper fix on this, must wait for someone with more experience than me for that. For a temporary fix, when you get the hangup during shutdown, try the "ctrl c" key combo. That may do the trick. I had a similar problem ages ago (trying to free nonexistant resource) on my dell laptop with another linux distro, and if I remember right that got it to finish the shutdown process without having to use the power button.........I think........., my memory seems near shot lately. Think I got a few spuds too many on my plate at the moment.

Lakota, thanks for trying to help.

I have tried the "ctrl c" but it has no effect. It is a definitive hang. Nothing works. Mandrake deals with it still quite elegantly. Slackware did not even get KDE to start up. It hanged at the Initializing peripherals.

Is there anything else i could try for solving this?

Does it print an error message or do you know exactly which part of the shutdown process causes the system to hang.

The system hangs down when it stops the pcmcia service. The exact error message is something like:

Stopping pcmcia: Trying to free non-existent resource: <000002e8-000002ef>
[the system hangs right here]

When the Modem card is not plugged in [that is i boot the computer with no modem card] the message is:

Stopping pcmcia: unloading Kernel card services OK
[something similar].

When i disable the pcmcia service (that is it does not start at boot, the system does not recognize the sound card.

I hope this was specific enough.

I don't know how to solve that problem, but you could manually kill your pcmcia service before shutting down the system. You need to run "ps -aux", all running services will be listed and you can kill the process using "killall processname" or "kill processid (a number)". Someone out there may have a better solution.

Reddazz, thank you for trying to help.

I have tried to kill the process in the Konsole. The system hanged. I have also stopped the service from a virtual console, and it hanged. I am still a newbie, but is there a way to send this error message to the null output or something similar?