Re: 2.4.22 hangs with pcmcia and linux-wlan

From: Willy Tarreau (willy_at_w.ods.org)
Date: 08/26/03

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To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>

    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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