Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:57:16 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Repeatable hang on boot with PCMCIA card present |
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:37:52 -0400 Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> wrote:
> 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.
oop, I get my Dominiks and Dmitrys mixed up for some reason, sorry.
> 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... > > -- > Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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