Bug 109341

Summary:	system hangs if I insert a pcmcia wifi card. dmesg sais:
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ondrej Vostal <ondra>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ondrej Vostal 2005-10-15 01:48:50 UTC

2.6.12-gentoo-r9 "self configured" on Pentium III coppermine everything is
UPTODATE I think.

The system hungs only if there is the cardmgr program started, but without it
the cards cannot work. The card is Airbond wireless lan model XI-325H. It works
with the hostap, or orinoco driver, but the failure is I thing in the
yenta-socket somewhere. Everytime I put it in the dmesg sais :
cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0fffff: excluding 0xc0000-0xd3fff 0xf0000-0xfffff
orinoco 0.14alpha2 (something authot etc.)
orinoto_cs --||--
Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips
   There is but another strange thing. The card works absolute properly on the
Gentoo life CD, where it rans with the hostap driver (kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r3
not the youngest cd I tink). On an older kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 it does the
same but doesen't hung and says cannot read MAC address. And it isn't working

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
described in detailes

Expected Results:  
functional wifi

If you could give me a hint. I should be able to fix It. Its likely a
configuration problem.

Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-15 09:36:33 UTC

Please try to reproduce on 2.6.13 (and even better, vanilla-sources-2.6.14_rc4)

Comment 2 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-10-29 06:03:58 UTC

Please try to reproduce this with the in-kernel hostap driver of
vanilla-sources-2.6.14 and re-open this bug.