From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:16:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:16:23 -0500 Received: from galactus.CS.Berkeley.EDU ([169.229.62.130]:34312 "EHLO galactus.cs.berkeley.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:16:17 -0500 Message-ID: <3C6931B6.F3F84212@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 07:16:06 -0800 From: "J. Robert von Behren" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.17-686 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.17 hangs hard w/ wavelan_cs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings! I've been seeing some seriously bad behavior from the wavelan_cs kernel module in 2.4.17. (I've tried 2.4.16 as well, compiled my own kernels rather than using the debian woody packages, etc - all w/ no effect on the bug.) After a bit of data is transfered, the machine hangs up. The Alt-SysRq trick does nothing, unfortunately, so I haven't been able to get any additional info. Also, the man page doesn't mention any additional debugging that I can turn on, so the logs don't have anything useful, either. ;-( The bug seems to be timing sensitive, since it doesn't always occur at the same point in my file transfer tests. It happens very consistently though - always within the first few megabytes of data transfered. I've used the same hardware setup w/ older versions of the kernel (2.2.14, 2.2.17, and probably some other 2.2.X kernels) with no problems. The pertinent changes (AFAICT) are that I'm running 2.4 now, and that I've been using the built-in pcmcia support, rather than the external pcmcia_cs package. Any ideas? Any advice on how I can get some better debugging info? Thanks much!! Best regards, -Rob von Behren