Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[David S. Miller]

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 03:01, [e-mail] wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Russell King wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:29:00AM +0200, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > I'm having some problems with 2.5.71 (latest bk yesterday I believe).
> > > All works well (pcmcia works as advertised, with one tiny blip on
> > > the horizon), except when I want to reboot, when I get the following
> > > message:
> > > 
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > > 
> > > The net device is an Orinoco mini-pci card (eg, cardbus minipci interface 
> > > with built-in orinoco card), and it is down.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure what causes this, and it's started somewhere in 2.5.70 bk.
> > 
> > I believe this is a netdevice problem and isn't anything to do with
> > PCMCIA or Cardbus.  If the net people would like to confirm this, it'd
> > be most helpful.
> 
> I'm also using a RTL8139 cardbus card, and that does not show this 
> particular problem (works great actually).
> So I'm not so sure it is a netdevice problem. It may be a orinoco
> problem, but I'm not entirely sure what's causing it.
> Just wanted to see if anyone's noticed it as well, and if a fix was
> out there.
> 
> Bas Vermeulen
> 
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