On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 13:15, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
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> I have run into this nasty problem several times now over the last two weeks.
> I am using a wireless connection (802.11b) at my job and running MDK 9.1 on
> my laptop. Something goes wrong with the connection and I try to reset it
> nicely through software but cannot (try to re-connect). The only option I
> then have is to reset the card and start over but...
>
> If I just pull the card (an Orinoco Gold using the orinoco_cs driver) my
> system locks up tight. No keyboard input possible and, since the card is
> pulled and the connection was borked anyway, there's no way to get it
> remotely. That's the hard way. I also have tried doing this nice by doing
> an "ifdown eth0" and then killing pcmcia ("/etc/init.d/pcmcia stop") and THEN
> pulling the card but as soon as I stop pcmcia, same result, hard,
> irretrievable system lockup. My only option at this point is to hard reboot.
>
> Does anyone have any idea about what the problem is here with linux and
> wireless such that simply trying to remove the card, one way or another,
> nicely or not, it totally wrecks the system? Anyone else run into this?
Closest I've had was a similar lockup when removing my card before I got
it running right. (Netgear MA401RA) the drivers for wlan and prismII
will do this to me the orinoco won't. I finally found the right naming
convention for my card and poof everything was happy. Post the section
for your card from /etc/pcmcia/conf (about 3 lines) and then the output
of
# cardctl ident
someone may recognize the card and have a better "description" than the
one that comes with MDK.
James
>
> My laptop is an IBM Thinkpad 1412 with celery 366.
>
> praedor
> - --
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> - --James Madison
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