Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: Repeatable hang on boot with PCMCIA card present | Date | Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:37:52 -0400 |
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On Monday 18 September 2006 22:09, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:03:31 +1000 > tarka@internode.on.net (Steve Smith) wrote: > > > [I sent the following to the person responsible for the patch but > > haven't heard anything so I assume he's unavailable...] > > > > Hi, > > > > With recent kernel releases I have started seeing consistent hangs > > during boot when a PCMCIA card is present in the slot (the card in > > question is a Linksys wireless-B card). The symptoms are: > > > > If the card is present during boot an error of "Unknown interrupt > > or fault at EIP ..." appears. > > > > If the card is not present there is no error. > > > > The card can be plugged-in post-boot without problems. > > > > Using git-bisect I have narrowed down the error to one commit, namely > > "use bitfield instead of p_state and state". The commit# is > > > > e2d4096365e06b9a3799afbadc28b4519c0b3526 > > > > However I am still seeing this problem with the latest -RC releases. > > Thanks for doing that. > > Damn, that was a huge patch. Have you been able to grab > a copy of the oops output? It would really help. Even a photo of > the screen.. >
Hmm, not sure why you CCed me unless you remembered I have Inspiron 8100. What chipset does that Linksys card use? I just tried one of my PCMCIA cards with orinoco_cs and it booted fine on today's pull from Linus...
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