Re: [2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory

From: Stefano Brivio
Date: Sun Dec 09 2007 - 17:10:45 EST


On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 19:41:58 +0000 (GMT)
Chris Rankin <rankincj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've recently been having trouble loading the hostap_plx 802.11b wireless
> networking driver, and this evening I managed to narrow the problem down
> to these lines of code by copying code from hostap_plx into a "test
> driver" until the test driver also locked the PC up:
>
> /* read CIS; it is in even offsets in the beginning of attr_mem */
> for (i = 0; i < CIS_MAX_LEN; i++)
> cis[i] = readb(attr_mem + 2 * i);

Not a fix, but if you load the module with ignore_cis = 1, it should work.


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Ciao
Stefano
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