Bug 174342

Summary:	Early installer crash if PCMCIA card inserted
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ville Skyttä <scop>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	bernd.bartmann, jjneely, marius.andreiana, oliva, ryan.ordway
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Fixed In Version:	fc5t2	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Ville Skyttä 2005-11-28 10:41:30 UTC

Note: this may be related to bug 174341 (see also that bug for hardware info).

The FC5test1 installer crashes very early if I have my Compaq WL110 PCMCIA WLAN
card inserted.  The last message shown is "Loading ohci1394 driver...", then
"install exited abnormally -- received signal 11".

Last three lines in VT3:
probing for firewire scsi devices
modules to insert pcmcia_core yenta_socket pcmcia
load module set done

Last three lines in VT4:
<7> ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[...]
<6> cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean
<6> cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean

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I had hard time getting this card to work in FC5test1, whereas it worked easily
with FC4.  For example, both hostap_cs and orinoco_cs were loaded for the card,
and I could never get it to work before doing all of the config manually using
orinoco_cs as it was in FC4 and blacklisting hostap_cs in /etc/modprobe.conf. 
Is this worth reporting separately against some component?

Comment 1 Alexandre Oliva 2005-11-30 16:40:12 UTC

Identical crash with a wired pcmcia network card, an old 3COM 10/100 card
controlled by 3c574_cs, so this is not related with wireless.

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2005-12-01 03:39:18 UTC

*** Bug 174038 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Ryan Ordway 2005-12-01 18:06:01 UTC

Would my Mini-PCI wireless card really fall into the PCMCIA category? My Dell
laptop is exhibiting this same behavior with no PCMCIA cards inserted, but the
internal Mini-PCI wireless card is activated. It worked just fine with FC4, but
the FC5t1 installer dies exactly as described in Bug 174038.

Comment 4 Ryan Ordway 2005-12-01 18:13:53 UTC

Sure enough, disabling the Mini-PCI wireless card in the BIOS kept the installer
from crashing. So far I'm up to package selection with no problems, other than
the lack of wireless support.

Comment 5 Jack Neely 2005-12-21 02:56:10 UTC

Also confirmed with an Orinoco mini-pci card.  This card acts as a pcmcia card.

Comment 6 Chris Lumens 2006-01-17 18:49:58 UTC

Please try again with test 2, as some kudzu and loader fixes have gone in
relating to PCMCIA segmentation faults in anaconda.

Comment 7 Bernd Bartmann 2006-01-17 20:11:59 UTC

Fixed for me on FC5T2.