I ran kernel vanilla-sources 2.6.24-rc4, and the rt61 drivers work great,they go up,down and connect without issue. With any kernels vanilla 2.6.24-rc 7 and up , including the gentoo-sources 2.6.24-gentoo, they cause the system to stop, the caps lock and scroll lock blink and the mouse is gone , and the system does not respond. I've been unable to get a log for this even as i don't know where the kernel stores its log. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Be running 2.6.24-gentoo 2.Have the rt61 <*> in the kernel 3.Try to have Knetworkmanager bring up the interface it gets connected then 4.System hard locks. Actual Results: System Hard Locks. Expected Results: Expected system to continue operating and the kernel not to hard lock. I can confirm that this is not in vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc4 , and i know it is in vanilla-source-2.6.24-rc7 and rc8. And this bug also exists in gentoo-sources-2.6.24.
possibly related http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9860
Andrew, would you have time to do a bisection between 2.6.24-rc4 and -rc7? http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2006/01/using-git-bisect-to-find-buggy-kernel-patches/
Looking at the upstream bug, it looks like this is fixed in 2.6.25 and can't really be fixed in 2.6.24. Please can you test the latest development kernel, currently 2.6.25-rc5, and see how things work there?
Please reopen when you have tested the latest development kernel
