James: Frankly I'm stumbling in the dark here, trying to figure out why, every time I connect this card reader with a card inserted to a box running Fedora Core 1, the whole system hangs. I thought that maybe the processor had something to do with it--but it also crashes my old Gateway Solo 2500SE with the Pentium 233-MHz processor, so the AMD Athlon/Duron issue can't be it. The symptoms are these: The box probes every drive connected to it, including the floppy and the CD-ROM and any other physical devices. Then, suddenly, it starts flashing the CAPS LOCK and NUM LOCK lights, the mouse won't respond, and in general I need to execute an uncontrolled, unclean shutdown. Temlakos On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 19:36, James Wilkinson wrote: > Temlakos wrote: > > > > (I > > wonder whether it's an architectural mismatch--AMD Duron not quite being > > an "athlon" or a "686"?), > > I'm not quite sure what your point is there: I can't see any other > mentions of Athlons or i686s, but a Duron is simply an Athlon with less > level 2 cache [1]. Architecturally, and from a compatibility point of > view, they should be identical, and fully compatible with kernels > compiled for "i686" machines. > > James.
