On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:31:59 +0200, I waved a wand and this message magically appears in front of Peter Stuge:
> Alex Buell wrote: > > I'd like to report a problem with my Dell Inspirion 5150. Inserting > > a PCMCIA cardbus card causes a freeze, everything just locks up > > solidly. > > Unfortunately this problem description does not have very much > helpful information with regard to finding the problem. :\ I realise that now, thanks for the advice. > Please try several different cardbus cards. The same thing happens with all of them, I have here, a Linksys wireless card, a USB 2.0 (NEC chipset) card, Belkin 10/100 mbps network card. All these cards works perfectly in my other laptop when last tested with it. > Please try setting up a serial console in the hope that you can get > some useful error messages from the kernel on card insertion. I will do that when I come home tonight from work, and send you the results. I am happy to do the work myself to find out what the problem is, I just needed pointing in the right direction. > > Gentoo Linux on this laptop, release 2.6.25-gentoo-r7. > > Please also try syncing portage and emerging the latest sources. > Please try both gentoo-sources and vanilla-sources. I do this every day but I have not tried vanilla-sources, will do that as well. Thanks, Alex -- http://www.munted.org.uk Fearsome grindings. _______________________________________________ Linux PCMCIA reimplementation list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
