Re: 2.4.22 hangs with pcmcia and linux-wlan

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 23:28:50 EST


Bingo.

[root@laptop-linux src]# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 342407 XT-PIC timer
1: 9083 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 509112 XT-PIC ltserial
5: 414 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, Allegro
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 1322 XT-PIC acpi, usb-uhci, i82365
10: 1623 XT-PIC eth0
12: 284866 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 104489 XT-PIC ide0
15: 24 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 342373
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
[root@laptop-linux src]#

Now I just need to learn how to get it to assign a different IRQ.

Regards,

Nigel

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 16:11, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I already encountered similar problems.
>
> Check if the PCMCIA slot is not on the same IRQ as ACPI in /proc/interrupts. You
> can also try to use a different PCMCIA slot, or boot with "acpi=off".
>
> Cheers,
> Willy
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:45:52PM +1200, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Similar results here, except I can be more specific. I see the issue
> > using pcmcia only. The package I'm using is the
> > external-to-the-kernel-tree pcmcia-cs-3.2.3. Under 2.4.22, I get a
> > complete freeze (no SysRq, no flashing cursor) when I insmod i82365.o. I
> > tried recompiling the whole kernel & modules using gcc 2.96 and 3.2 to
> > no avail. If I use the kernel tree's code, I can insmod okay, but my
> > ltmodem_cs driver reports the modem as being busy all the time. The
> > problem was fixed by reverting to 2.4.21 (I'd already deleted pre2,
> > which was working). No configuration changes required - just a
> > recompile.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Nigel
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 15:37, Hmamouche, Youssef wrote:
> > > Out of curiosity, what happens when you remove the card? Does the system
> > > come back to normal or does it stay in the same state?
> > >
> > > Youssef
> > >
> > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm running kernels with pcmcia-cs-3.2.4 and linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre11 (also
> > > > tried 0.2). With 2.4.22-rc3 to final the system hangs if I insert my LevelOne
> > > > WPC-0100 (Prism-II-base wlan), no output at all. Everything worked well up to
> > > > and including 2.4.22-rc2.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Christian
> > > >
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