ipw driver causes total system freeze

[Brian Behlendorf]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Dennis Koegel wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 05:37:13PM +0200, Niki Denev wrote:
>> I do experience freezes when try to load the driver/firmware under X.
>> The machine freezes immediately and only hardreset works.
>> [...]
>> The machine is IBM ThinkPad X31.
>>
>> P.S.: This is probably more appropriate for the ipw forum, but i'm
>> curious if anyone else has similar problems?
>
> I didn't use the ipw driver for two or three months now, so I can't
> say anything about the other issues. The freeze on firmware load -
> only in X - is present here, too. X31 here as well.

For what it's worth, I've not yet seen problems on a new X40 after 2 weeks 
of regular use.

 	Brian