ipw driver causes total system freeze

[Bengt Ahlgren]

Brian Behlendorf <brian at hyperreal.org> writes:

> 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.

I have - but not with ipw per se.

After I _unload_ ipw, it won't recognise any PC card that I insert.
It just says:

  pccard0: Card has no functions!
  cbb0: PC Card card activation failed

When I reload ipw, it works again.  Indicates that something is messed
up by ipw?

(Thinkpad X40, 5.3R, ipw 1.6.3, xorg 6.7.0, no "device apic" in kernel
- won't resume properly with, no "options INET6", using ACPI)

Bengt