Kernel panic with >=3.1.30 & >=2.4.18

[David Gibson]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:54:42PM -0400, Martin Weinberg wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Jean Tourrilhes suggested I post this query/problem for David Gibson on
> this list.
> 
> 
> I have:
> 
> an PII 450Mhz on a AsusP2B board runningsystem library 2.2.5 (Debian
> 3.0/Woody), kernel 2.4.16 and pcmcia-cs 3.1.30, with a Orinoco Silver PC
> card in the Orinoco branded ISA adapter card.
> 
> Everything works fine with this configuration.
> 
> After upgrade to kernel 2.4.18, I experienced a kernel panic when the
> pcmcia drivers were loaded (no problem without loading the drivers). I
> upgraded to pcmcia-cs 3.1.33 with no difference. I also tried 2.4.19-pre8
> with the same behavior.  I could not get the native kernel drivers to
> detect the ISA-PCMCIA bridge, so all of this is with the standalone drivers.

Do you mean when you load the pcmcia base modules, or when you insert
the card (loading the orinoco modules)?

> When it does work (old configuration), I see:
> ds: no socket drivers loaded!
> Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
> Vadem VG-469 rev 00 ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e2 ofs 0x00
> host opts [0]: none
> host opts [1]: none
> ISA irqs (scanned) = 4,14,15 polling interval = 1000 ms
> cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: excluding 0xd0000-0xd3fff
> cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0cffff: excluding 0xc0000-0xcffff
> hermes.c: 3 Oct 2001 David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> orinoco.c 0.08 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
> orinoco_cs.c 0.08 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
> cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x1f0-0x1f7 0x290-0x297 0x388-0x38f 0x3c0-0x3e7 0x3f0-0x3ff 0x4d0-0x4d7
> cs: IO port probe 0x01f8-0x028f: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0298-0x0387: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0390-0x03bf: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x03e8-0x03ef: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0400-0x04cf: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
> eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0004:0020
> eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 4.32
> eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported.
> eth1: WEP supported, "128"-bit key.
> eth1: MAC address 00:60:1D:F0:37:05
> eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
> eth1: ready
> eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 14, io 0x0100-0x013f
> 
> Any thoughts?  What has changed between 2.4.18 and 2.4.16 that would
> affect the standalone drivers?

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