Re: hang with pcmcia wlan card

[Russell King]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 07:22:53PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >My laptop (thinkpad 570e) hangs hard straight after bringing up
> >interface with d-link dwl-650 wlan card. 2.5.73-bk1 works and
> >2.5.73-bk2 to 2.5.75-bk1 hang. If I boot without the card,
> >everything comes up, but inserting the card results to a hang.
> >Setting nmi_watchdog=2 has no effect.
> 
>  Ok, bit more info: same thing happens with edimax 8139 based
>  cardbus nic also. I've disabled apm and acpi from kernel 
>  and going to start going through the pci changes between 
>  2.5.73-bk1 and bk2. Any clues would be much appreciated.

Its a hotplug/netdevice interaction, and it happens for many hotpluggable
network devices, whether they be NE2K cards, wireless cards or whatever.

AFAICS, it isn't a PCMCIA nor cardbus problem.

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