Orinoco driver lockups

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:59:19PM -0500, Robert Hardy wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Bruce Janson wrote:
> >     ...
> >     From: Robert Hardy <rhardy at webcon.net>
> >     To: wireless at lists.samba.org, <anton at samba.org>,
> >     	<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> >     ...
> >     Testing environment:
> >       I've got a pair of Orinoco 802.11b Wireless NICs. One
> >       is in a Sager notebook running Windoze 98 and the other is a Linux 2.4.x
> >       based box on a Abit BP6 with a pair of Celeron CPU & 512M of RAM.
> >     ...
> >
> > Robert,
> >     Does the problem persist if on the dual Linux box you
> > 1) run a UP kernel and/or
> > 2) disable (remove?) one of the CPUs?
> 
> My collegue tried this on his workstation. The drivers do not exhibit the problems
> on either a UP kernel or an SMP kernel with maxcpu=1.

Ah, right, ok.  I strongly suspect this is a problem in the PCMCIA
subsystem - I really wouldn't trust it on SMP.

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