This might be a silly question, but do you have the reader plugged into a USB 2.0 slot? On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Temlakos wrote: > I tried the below procedure. > > At first it said something about not having something-or-other in > place--I can't recall what, because when everything froze, I lost it > all. I recall that it recognized the reader as a Lexar, but then kept > saying that USB drivers were timing out. And then suddenly it poured out > a lot of gibberish, ending in a string of hex codes that I can't > possibly recall--ending with the phrase "Kernel panic" and a notice > about "killing the interrupt handler." After that, my Caps Lock and Num > Lock LED's started to flash, and the system would not respond to > anything except a cold-turkey shutdown. > > Just tho show you how new I am at this game--and that some might say > that Fedora Core was a poor choice for a total newcomer to Linux--I did > not appreciate what a "kernel panic" was until you told me to proceed as > I just did, and I read the above messages (as nearly as I can recall > them). > > All right--so the kernel flies into a panic and shuts down its interrupt > handler every time I connect the card reader. I assume that the other > machine does the same thing. So how do I get the kernel *not* to panic? > > Temlakos > > On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 08:35, James Wilkinson wrote: > > What happens if you press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a text terminal, then > > connect the card reader? > > > > It throughly sounds as though you've got a kernel panic. > > > > James. > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
