Cardbus troubles on 5.2-CURRENT
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Tue Jan 6 21:45:49 PST 2004
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 07:33 pm, Eric Anderson wrote:
> I posted this to the -current mailing list earlier, and have mentioned
> it several times in the past, but no response. Am I the only person
> having troubles here? Cardbus used to at least fail gracefully (by not
> understanding what card was inserted) instead of bombing my network card
> (causing me to have to reboot).
>
> So here's the scoop - when I insert any cardbus card (but 16-bit pc
> cards are fine, and don't have the problem), it seems to try to detect
> it as a bge1 device, and destroys my working bge0 device (broadcom
> gigabit ethernet). Here's the dmesg:
>
This is identical to the behaviour I see on my Dell i600m laptop. Warner is
aware of it and understands what the root cause is, but solving it is
(apparently) a bit involved.
Sam
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