Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 40147
Connecting network to pcmcia card freezes computer
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:01:18 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: When using a "Linksys EtherFast 10/100 + 56K Modem PC Card" (Model: PCMLM56), and version 3.1.24 release 2 of the kernel-pcmcia-cs, the card is recognized, but the PC will totally freeze up when you connect a network cable. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot 7.1 with PCMCIA card removed. 2. Insert PCMCIA card and wait for Redhat to recognize it. 3. Insert network cable into card and watch PC freeze. (NOTE: It doesn't matter if you use DHCP or a hard bound IP address, results are the same.) Actual Results: PC is totally locked up. The only way to recover is to remove the power cord and battery (It's on a Compaq Armada 7400 Laptop). Expected Results: Should have been able to talk to the network. Additional info:
I'm not alone!! Thank god. I'd not worked it out exactly until I found this bug, but like the guy says as soon as a network connection is made via the pcmcia card the machine locks up completely. My card in question is a 3Com 10/100 3CCFE574BT. I'm going to try and burn the recent updates onto a cd and install the new kernel to see if that improves the situation.
I can also reproduce the error. Laptop Armada 7400, netcard: Edimax Ne2000 type. I can avoid it crashing by doing an 'ifdown eth0' before connecting the net connection to the netcard, however, it will crash the moment 'ifup eth0' is run. It worked perfectly under 2.2.17 kernels. Btw. it seems to work fine under Suse 7.1