[Bug 7215] PCMCIA network card causes either X or kernel to freeze

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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7215





------- Additional Comments From ericabel at mit.edu  2006-09-27 15:36 -------
Quoting bugme-daemon at bugzilla.kernel.org:

> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7215
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> ------- Additional Comments From akpm at osdl.org  2006-09-27 13:04 -------
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:07:00 -0700
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>> I can still connect through the ethernet port, which is unaffected by this
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> You can?  That's interesting.

Scratch that...I can't.  I meant, in theory, I can connect through the 
ethernet
port, but I just tried, and the netconsole I was working on went dead when the
computer froze.

> When you do so, is there nothing interesting in the `dmesg' output?

Even without doing this, I thought dmesg just printed the contents of
/var/log/messages, which has a time stamp, and I have tried looking at the log
file right before it died (to see the last time stamp), then the next 
series of
messages are associated with the new boot after restarting (starting with the
message "restart".  Basically there's nothing I can see no messages which seem
to occur around the time the system freezes up, much less anything which
indicates a problem (in syslog either).  This is why the problem is so
perplexing to me.

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> This means that there's no point in setting up a serial console or anything.

I guess there is...but it'll be a while.  I'll need to get a serial
cable...haven't had need for one of those in years.

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> If you can still connect to the machine, then what do you mean by "it
> freezes"?  Just that the X interface is wedged up?

At this point, I can say that I have no interaction with the machine, either
with the mouse or keyboard.

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> If so, run `top' and `ps aux', see if some process is stuck spinning in a
> loop or something.
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> Could it just be that the keyboard/mouse have gone bad?

No, the computer will run forever if I use only the ethernet connection, it's
only when I connect wirelessly that the problem manifests itself.

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> What happens if you do `sudo killall X' when logged in over the network?
> Does the X server terminate?  Can it be restarted?

Don't know, haven't been able to interact with the computer once it's 
frozen up
yet.

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