Re: Bug#28383: Ejecting PCMCIA cards at suspend time
Brian Mays wrote:
> support, then pcmcia_core has APM support. To see whether your system has
> APM support in its modules, you can look at the /var/log/messages file.
> It should have something like the following:
>
> Oct 22 12:07:35 xxxx kernel: unloading PCMCIA Card Services
> Oct 22 12:07:49 xxxx kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.5
> Oct 22 12:07:49 xxxx kernel: kernel build: 2.0.35 unknown
> Oct 22 12:07:49 xxxx kernel: options: [apm]
> ^^^
>
> The "[apm]" indicates that APM support was compiled into pcmcia_core.
> The pcmcia-modules-* packages provided by Debian do not have APM
> support, since the kernel-image-* packages do not have APM support.
> But if you recompile the kernel with APM, you also must recompile the
> PCMCIA modules, and these new modules will have APM. When the kernel
> receives a suspend event, it supposedly signals the pcmcia_core module
> which suspends/resumes all PCMCIA cards.
FWIW, my laptop has apm support compiled in, and will freeze if I suspend it
with my ethernet card in and don't manually suspend the card first.
I'll be happy to test any new pcmcia packages you have that might fix this.
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