Re: Repeatable hang on boot with PCMCIA card present

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>]

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...
 
-- 
Dmitry
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