Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 390561
Kernel Panic with prism2.5 PCMCIA card during boot
Last modified: 2008-02-13 18:12:53 EST
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.
Can you capture the panic messages?
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.