WLAN PCMCIA locks system

Emma242 · 11-19-2004, 03:00 PM

When I insert my WLAN PCMCIA card, it freezes the system, until I remove it.
Tried with a PCMCIA floppy and it works...

Its a acx100 based card, Topcom Skyr@cer 3044...

BTW, it work one hour ago in deb, so it works...

opjose · 11-19-2004, 11:31 PM

Yeah the kernel is unable to deal with the resource allocations for the PCMCIA device, hence the lockup.

Did you disable ACPI? (which should be ON!).

Look at /etc/lilo.conf

If you see something like

acpi=ht

or

acpi=off

then ACPI is disabled.

Also note that there are some problems with AGP drivers sometimes if the PCMCIA services are correctly configured.

I posted on a thread where someone was trying to get a Dell Truemobile Mini-PCI card to work on their system, information which is applicable in this case.

Emma242 · 11-20-2004, 10:59 AM

ACPI in on.

Giving up and going back to deb, mandrake seems way to messy...

opjose · 11-20-2004, 07:17 PM

This has nothing to do with Mandrake and is not distro specific.

Rather it is related to the kernel in use and how it handles events and devices.

A newer kernel (or older one) may not have these issues.

So if it works in another distro, merely use the same kernel as the other distro.