On my NEC Versa SX, inserting the APA-1460A PCMCIA SCSI card causes RH6.2 to lock up hard. This did not happen on my RH6.1 system with my own build of 2.2.14 + fresh PCMCIA package (not the Red Hat version of either) ( hadn't compiled the correct module, so the PCMCIA package balked without hanging). Observations: - the lockup is pretty hard: mouse isn't tracked, pings are not responded to, keys are ignored (including CTRL-ALT-DEL). - I've tried renaming the module (/bin/modules/2.2.14-6.0.1/pcmcia/aha152x_cs.o.HIDE) to prevent it being loaded, but the crash still happens - I've tried the original kernel package, and the errata one: no difference. - I've tried a serial console, hoping something would come out in the dying gasp -- nothing (but "debug" does not seem to direct every message to the console; I wonder why) - my PCMCIA network card work fine (until the lockup) and the observations of the effect of the SCSI card are not changed by having the NIC installed or not. Other Bugzilla reports suggest that the RH6.2 PCMCIA support is out of date. To bad one suggests that updating within the RH6.2 kernel isn't easy.
The RH 6.9.5 tree should resolve this (PCMCIA 3.1.18)