Your message dated Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:13:23 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#589778: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: prism2.5: hostap loads 90s has caused the Debian Bug report #589778, regarding linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: prism2.5: hostap loads 90s to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-15 and 2.6.32-17 Severity: minor After upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze loading the hostap* modules for the built-in prism2.5 wireless network card need ~90s to load (I think loading is done by udev) and thus extend the boot process by this time. It is quite annoying to have to wait twice as long as the boot process usually takes, e.g. if the orinoco module for this card is loaded (but no connection is possible with the orinoco module). This problem occurs with the kernel versions in testing (2.6.32-15) and unstable (2.6.32-17). With a vanilla 2.6.34.1 the boot process does not finish because the kernel get stuck in soft lockups: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! Updating the prism2.5 firmware from 1.4.3 to 1.4.9 or 1.5.6 does not help. (1.7.4 does not help either and prevents the card from connecting.) Blacklisting the hostap* modules (the orinoco modules are already blacklisted by the hostap-utils package) prevents all modules from loading which dramatically decreases the boot time. Manually loading the modules shows a bunch of messages in dmesg (which do not help me finding a solution), it still nearly completely block the whole system (but top does not show any number significantly above 0% except idle) and a connection is not possible. 02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01) Subsystem: Actiontec Electronics Inc Device 0406 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Kernel driver in use: hostap_pci hostap_pci 34480 2 hostap 76764 1 hostap_pci lib80211 2870 3 lib80211_crypt_wep,hostap_pci,hostap -- Package-specific info: ** Kernel log: boot messages should be attached -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-17 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.97.2 tools for generating an initramfs ii linux-base 2.6.32-17 Linux image base package ii module-init-tools 3.12-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 recommends: ii firmware-linux-free 2.6.32-15 Binary firmware for various driver ii libc6-i686 2.11.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 suggests: pn grub | lilo <none> (no description available) pn linux-doc-2.6.32 <none> (no description available) -- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:21:04PM +0100, Sten Heinze wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Thanks for your reply. The laptop with this wireless network card was > replaced in the meantime, so this issue is solved for me. OK, closing the bug report. Sorry we couldn't provide more help earlier. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus
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