freeze on Dell Inspiron 700m

Stephen Lau steve at grommit.com
Wed Nov 10 10:53:42 PST 2004


On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:49:08PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Correction...  the only thing hal _does_ do is to try to detect whether
> or not the card has a link, using MII register link detection, which is
> really just an ioctl() on the card.  If this fails, then the card
> doesn't have link detection.  However, if the box freezes, then
> something is _definitely_ wrong with the Broadcom driver.

okay... thanks for the help debugging this guys.  i'll file a bug
against b44.

-steve

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stephen lau | steve at grommit.com | www.whacked.net | gpg 0x09E5CD21
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