Bug#587703: System hangs at boot with PCIE Mini WiFi card attached

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Kushal,

Kushal Koolwal wrote:

> Whenever I attach a PCI-E mini Intel 5300 Wifi card to my system, 
> the Debian kernel 2.6.32 hangs at boot with the following error messages:
[...]
> [    1.685827] ACPI Error: Could not disable RealTimeClock events (20090903/evx)
> [    1.694216] rtc_cmos 00:06: RTC can wake from S4                             
> [    1.698858] rtc_cmos 00:06: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0            
> [    1.705101] rtc0: alarms up to one day, 242 bytes nvram                      
> [    1.710315] cpuidle: using governor ladder                                   
> [    1.714398] cpuidle: using governor menu                                     
> [    1.1]
> ***************************************************************************
> and the system hangs abruptly everytime with the above messages.

Thanks.

Please attach "lspci -vvnn" output with a kernel that can boot with
the card attached.

Does blacklisting the iwlagn driver help?  If so, what happens if you
load the driver later?

Sorry for the slow response, and hope that helps,
Jonathan