On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:23:07PM +0100, Laurent VANCAILLIE wrote:
> I am using Debian Potato on a Dell Inspiron 3500.
> Sometimes when I am connected to 100 MHz networks through the PCMCIA card,
> all the applications which have to work with the PCMCIA card freeze. Then
> they come alive for a moment and again freeze.
> I am quite new to the Debian GNU/Linux world and I really wonder what it
> could be. The txqueuelen was at first set to 100. I set it to 200 to see
> if the problem was circumvented but no, it stays freezing.
>
> Some informations :
> I am connected to a 100 MHz Hub
>
> Linux kernel 2.2.18pre21 as he comes with the stable dist
>
> When it freezes, ifconfig gives :
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:FF:67:D1
> inet addr:130.104.237.64 Bcast:130.104.237.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:26897 errors:11 dropped:0 overruns:839 frame:17
> TX packets:10322 errors:189 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
> collisions:66 txqueuelen:200
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0x280
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> Contents of /proc/interrupts is :
> CPU0
> 0: 1203191 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 22289 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> 10: 34882 XT-PIC i82365, eth0
^^^^^^
Hmm, that's probably not good, I think your laptop has a CardBus
bridge, not the old 82365 PCMCIA bridge. The 2.4 kernels have the
yenta_socket module for CardBus bridges, my experience is that
linux-2.4 has much better support for the exotic hardware found in
laptops.
If you want to run linux-2.4, you could either choose to use Adrian
Bunk's 2.4 debs on top of Potato, or consider upgrading to testing.
Erik
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