Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: thinkpad t21 lockup when using pcmcia package | Date | Mon, 3 Dec 2001 21:14:23 -0800 (PST) | From | (Colonel) |
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In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > >I seem to have narrowed down my lockups to when I use a recent 2.4 >kernel (currently on 2.4.15-pre8) and the external pcmcia source
You should probably move to 2.4.16 at a minimum.
>(currently have 3.1.29 on my system). The main reason I use the pcmcia >source is that I can't get my orinoco card to work with the kernel's >modules, though it works out of the box with the pcmcia source. > >The problem I'm having is that if I leave my laptop on overnight (with >the (kernel + pcmcia package combo) it locks up sometime during the >night after a few hours of inactivity on console. If I leave an ssh >session into it doing stuff it still locks up. However, if I apm >--suspend it. It surives the night fine. It also seems to survive find >if I use the built into kernel pcmcia package.
It's probably the pcmcia package, try different versions. I can leave my T21 up for days running any of several of the kernels from the past 2 months.
> >As this is just a case of "hanging" and there's no messages in syslog on >reboot, anybody have any clues on how to diagnore this, and fix this >(and I'd personally think that understanding how to get my orinoco card >to work with the in kernel source drivers to be a fix)
That's probably it, however I do not have that card.
>spotter@{cs.columbia.edu,yucs.org} >http://yucs.org/~spotter/
-- Windows 2001: "I'm sorry Dave ... I'm afraid I can't do that."
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