http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html

Card seems to be OK... Beeep! I've just printed off the PCMCIA and Networking HOWTO's. I can't stand on-screen text for too long, great fan of books.

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2. When I issue a Shutdown Now command from the shell, it shuts down and I

get a $BASH >prompt. Does it not get as far as a "power down" message? Jenny.

Oh yes, it does all the groovy things my other system does, stopping the daemons etc... then it seems to start up again into the login prompt, or after a lot more shutdown commands, puts me into the $BASH prompt. (as opposed to ricardo@Azathoth$ type prompt). I'll try old nuTTer's -h flag idea, and keep ya posted