I wrote a few months ago with an issue about my laptop crashing (freezing) randomly. I have since figured it out: for some reason I have to boot with the 'noapic' kernel option. It's the weirdest thing, but when I do that it boots right up and doesn't crash at all, regardless of the distro. I thought I'd throw that out there for other people having the same problem (I've read about quite a few), but I also have another possibly unrelated problem. However, I'm not presently using Gentoo, so I want to check if this is legit first. If not I'll find another mailing list/forum until I go back to Gentoo, but I thought I'd try here first. Here's my problem: several minutes after I modprobe wlan0, I get a kernel message that says 'Disabling IRQ #9'. dmesg gives be something about 'nobody cared, disabling irq #9', and then a bunch of confusing numbers I don't understand. However, if I limit my usage of my wireless card, it takes longer, so the time it takes to disable irq #9 seems to be proportional to the usage of the device. I'm using ndiswrapper with a bcm4310 (either 4310 or 4311) UART wireless card that just so happens to be on IRQ#9. It only happens when I modprobe ndiswrapper, but when I boot it does the same thing with IRQ #7, which is one of my USB ports. Can I disallow the disabling of IRQ's by my kernel somehow? It tells me to boot with IRQpoll, but irqpoll makes the kernel panic. Again, please tell me if I shouldn't be asking this question here, I just thought that since I originally e-mailed this mailing list about a similar issue it might be helpful to follow up in the same place.
Thanks, -Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
