Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:25:45 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco |
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On Tue, 2003-06-17 12:01:40 +0200, bvermeul@blackstar.nl <bvermeul@blackstar.nl> wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306171159470.1854-100000@blackstar.nl>: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Russell King wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:29:00AM +0200, bvermeul@blackstar.nl wrote: > > > I'm having some problems with 2.5.71 (latest bk yesterday I believe). > > > All works well (pcmcia works as advertised, with one tiny blip on > > > the horizon), except when I want to reboot, when I get the following > > > message: > > > > > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 1 > > > > > > The net device is an Orinoco mini-pci card (eg, cardbus minipci interface > > > with built-in orinoco card), and it is down. > > > > > > I'm not sure what causes this, and it's started somewhere in 2.5.70 bk. > > > > I believe this is a netdevice problem and isn't anything to do with > > PCMCIA or Cardbus. If the net people would like to confirm this, it'd > > be most helpful. > > I'm also using a RTL8139 cardbus card, and that does not show this > particular problem (works great actually). > So I'm not so sure it is a netdevice problem. It may be a orinoco > problem, but I'm not entirely sure what's causing it. > Just wanted to see if anyone's noticed it as well, and if a fix was > out there.
I'm not sure, but for what I *see* (using a PCMCIA NE2000 clone with my Laptop) this problem occures by this:
- Insert your card (after "/etc/init.d/pcmcia-cs start" is done, that card will be recognized and configured). - shutdown your laptop. This involves "/etc/init.d/pcmcia-cs stop". - _Later on_ (after the card should already have gone away because you've just stopped the pcmcia subsystem), "/etc/init.d/networking stop" tried to "ifconfig ethX down" the card - Bang.
The cardbus/hotplug stuff might be different here. I think this is solely a problem of the pure PCMCIA stuff...
MfG, JBG
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