Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:47:34 +0100 | | From | Eric Valette <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.37-rc7: no more shutdown on DELL E6400 |
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On 24/12/2010 00:56, Felipe Balbi wrote: > Hi,
> I've got an E6400 myself and the only time I could get > it to hang was when trying to use brcm80211 driver from > staging. The problem appears when I rmmod/modprobe the > driver after it looses connection to my wifi router. > > Since the driver is still in staging and buggy as hell > I didn't bother notifying anyone. But it's true that > shutdown truly hangs. > > Are you using brcm80211 driver too ? >
No. Mine has an Intel WiFi chipset. With DELL the same reference can be used for multiple different hardware instantiation (I have a nvidia vido chipset some seems now to have an intel one).
PS: For me the hang appeared with 2.6.37-rc7. I run linux on it for more than a year changing stable kernel as soon as they appear and usually trying future kernel around rc6 stage.
2.6.36.2 works perfectly. I did not change my config except maybe if the make oldconfig was proposing something obvious (e.g new generic MII support).
--eric
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