Zwane Mwaikambo writes:
> yOn Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>
> > Cardbus/hotplugging is still broken in 2.5.56. Inserting a
> > card fails due a bogus 'resource conflict', and ejecting it
> > oopses the kernel. It's been this way since 2.5.4x-something.
> >
> > Dell Latitude, Texas PCI1131 cardbus bridge, 3c575_cb NIC.
>
> I think its a matter of resource collisions only and the oops is
> inadequate cleanup on failure. I've tested cardbus/hotplugging on a TI PCI1211 and
> Tulip 21142 based NIC. Perhaps find the last working kernel?
I did some tests yesterday, and 2.5.49 was the last kernel to work at all:
boot, insert NIC, and it goes up. But the last few 2.5.4x all seemed to
handle ejection incorrectly: ejecting and reinserting the NIC did _not_
successfully enable it, and manually down/up eth0 didn't help.
/Mikael
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