Bug 390561 - Kernel Panic with prism2.5 PCMCIA card during boot
Summary: Kernel Panic with prism2.5 PCMCIA card during boot
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 8
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-19 15:49 UTC by James Evans
Modified: 2008-02-13 23:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-02-13 23:12:53 UTC
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Description James Evans 2007-11-19 15:49:09 UTC
Description of problem:
've got a Compaq Armada m700 laptop with a Proxim (prism 2.5 chipset) PCMCIA
wireless card. It's been running FC4 for years without a problem. I tried
updating to Fedora 8, and have an interesting problem. If I boot the laptop with
the wireless card in, it kernel panics loading the hostap_cs module during udev
startup. If I take the card out the computer boots fine. After it is booted I
can put the card in and everything works fine. The hostap_cs module loads fine
and the card works.

A little experimentation showed that if I plug the card in before the HAL daemon
starts, the kernel instantly panics. If I let the HAL start, it works fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 8

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plug in PCMCIA card
2. Boot System
  
Actual results:
Kernel panics displaying "Starting udev"


Expected results:
System boots with wireless card enabled

Additional info:
The card also does not work after suspend/resume. I don't know if this is related.

Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2007-12-07 23:21:20 UTC
Can you capture the panic messages?

Comment 2 Christopher Brown 2008-02-13 23:12:53 UTC
Hello,

I'm reviewing this bug as part of the kernel bug triage project, an attempt to
isolate current bugs in the Fedora kernel.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage

I am closing this INSUFFICIENT_DATA as there has been no response to comment #1
for two months. Please re-open should this issue exist with the panic messages
as requested. Thanks for filing the bug.


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