Re: 2.4.22 hangs with pcmcia and linux-wlan

[Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>]

Hi,

I already encountered similar problems.

Check if the PCMCIA slot is not on the same IRQ as ACPI in /proc/interrupts. You
can also try to use a different PCMCIA slot, or boot with "acpi=off".

Cheers,
Willy

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:45:52PM +1200, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Similar results here, except I can be more specific. I see the issue
> using pcmcia only. The package I'm using is the
> external-to-the-kernel-tree pcmcia-cs-3.2.3. Under 2.4.22, I get a
> complete freeze (no SysRq, no flashing cursor) when I insmod i82365.o. I
> tried recompiling the whole kernel & modules using gcc 2.96 and 3.2 to
> no avail.  If I use the kernel tree's code, I can insmod okay, but my
> ltmodem_cs driver reports the modem as being busy all the time. The
> problem was fixed by reverting to 2.4.21 (I'd already deleted pre2,
> which was working). No configuration changes required - just a
> recompile.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nigel
> 
> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 15:37, Hmamouche, Youssef wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, what happens when you remove the card? Does the system
> > come back to normal or does it stay in the same state?
> > 
> > Youssef
> > 
> > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm running kernels with pcmcia-cs-3.2.4 and linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre11 (also 
> > > tried 0.2). With 2.4.22-rc3 to final the system hangs if I insert my LevelOne 
> > > WPC-0100 (Prism-II-base wlan), no output at all. Everything worked well up to 
> > > and including 2.4.22-rc2.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > >   Christian
> > > 
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