I've dug a bit through the kernel sources. The timeout is set to one second (zd_usb.c) and it's being honoured like it should; the "time ifconfig eth5 up" command reports
real 0m1.004s So the reported error is the actual reason for the failure. The device is expected to reply to something within one second but in certain cases it doesn't. I don't know the driver and kernel internals enough to make more assumptions. However this timeout issue brings another strange behaviour I've observed sometimes at boot to my mind. It happens that when the kernel says: Waiting for /dev to be fully populated... the machine hangs for quite a long time (one minute or two), then it continues booting until it finally hangs forever (at least for more than 1 hour) on "Discovering new hardware". This happens only when the adapter is plugged, in fact the solution is to unplug it and reboot (hard reboot with power button). If I try to reboot without unplugging it I get the same problem repeated. After a reboot cycle without the adapter I can plug it in again and the boot process becomes normal, until the next time it decides to hang. Lucio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.ath.cx/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
