From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: laptop hangs on bootup when pcmcia wireless card installed. last message after starting pcmcia services refers to "mounting other filesystems". kernel becomes unresponsive to keyboard and mouse input. hang also reproduced immediately upon inserting pcmcia wireless card after a successful system startup (without the pcmcia card initially installed). pertinent hardware: - sharp actius av18 laptop - yenta pcmcia card bus - orinoco gold classic wireless pcmcia card Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-1.667 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: scenario 1: 1. insert pcmcia wireless card 2. power up laptop 3. kernel hang after "mounting other filesystems" scenario 2: 1. power up laptop without pcmcia wireless card installed 2. insert pcmcia wireless card after displaying login screen 3. kernel hang without kernel debugging messages to console Actual Results: - keyboard and mouse become unresponsive. - cpu temperature rises (area on laptop warm to touch) - cpu fan increases rpms Expected Results: pcmcia wireless card should automagically power on and configure using dhcp. wireless configuration used successfully on kernel-2.6.8 series. kernel hang reproducible on vanilla kernel-2.6.9 series. Additional info:
Created attachment 106677 [details] dmesg.txt
Created attachment 106678 [details] lsmod.txt
Created attachment 106679 [details] lspci.txt
Created attachment 106680 [details] chkconfig.txt
pertinent /var/log/messages: -- snip -- Nov 14 12:45:39 localhost pcmcia: cardmgr[2603]: open_sock(socket 1) failed: Bad file descriptor Nov 14 12:45:39 localhost cardmgr[2603]: open_sock(socket 1) failed: Bad file descriptor Nov 14 12:45:39 localhost cardmgr[2603]: watching 1 socket Nov 14 12:45:39 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. Nov 14 12:45:39 localhost pcmcia: cardmgr[2603]: watching 1 socket Nov 14 12:45:39 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7 Nov 14 12:45:39 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. Nov 14 12:45:39 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. Nov 14 12:45:39 localhost cardmgr[2604]: socket 0: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter Nov 14 12:45:39 localhost pcmcia: done. Nov 14 12:45:39 localhost rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded -- snip -- forced power off by holding power button down
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
This problem is resolved for the laptop used in the original post. However, I'm experiencing a nearly identical problem with the 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 kernel on a sony vaio laptop model s460. I will post dmesg, lsmod, lspci, etc. from that machine when I get a chance.
please file a seperate bug for the other case, even if it does look similar. (Also note that theres a 1398 kernel for FC4 out today) Thanks for testing.