Re: Freeze after insert of pcmcia card
Hi,
This is an old thread (August 20 2004!), but I thought It could be useful to
share the solution I've found for the "freezing" problem upon insterting, in
my case, a Netgear MA401RA pcmcia card in a Sony Vaio PCG-K13 with Debian Sid
& standard kernel 2.6.12.
The solution that works in my case is quite simple (but it took me a while to
find it!): I just had to comment out (remove the #) the line "exlude IRQ3"
at the end the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file, and then reboot.
It seems that there is an IRQ conflict if the MA401RA is set to use IRQ3.
Hope it will help someone
Marco
> I have a problem that has been troubling me for some time. Whenever I
> plugin my 802.11b PCMCIA netword card my laptop freezes completely and I
> have to cut the power. The same thing happens it the PCMCIA card is in
> the computer when it boots.
>
> Computer:
> Hi-Grade notino 5400
> Netgear MA401 network card
> Latest debian testing
> Standard Debian kernel image 2.6.7
> In the pcmcia-howto they suggest that there might be a problem with the
> ports and memory in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. I've tried to read the
> memory sections from the device driver information under windows and
> inserting them in config.opts, But I keep getting the same results.
>
> Claus
>
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Marco Laverdière
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