freeze on Dell Inspiron 700m

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 13:49 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 13:37 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 10:27 -0800, Stephen Lau wrote:
> > > anyway. very interesting. i can workaround this i guess by bringing
> > > eth0 up at boot time before HAL starts, and then bringing it down
> > > afterwards in rc.local or something - but a better solution should be
> > > found.
> > 
> > This very much sounds like a driver problem, not a HAL problem.  HAL
> > just reads device attributes out of sysfs, it doesn't actually do
> > anything to the driver or the device itself.  Its probably the broadcom
> > driver being really, really stupid.
> 
> 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.
> 

Right. However, we don't need to check the link if the interface is not
up; the attached patch implements this.

I've built RPMs for FC3 with this patch here:

 http://people.redhat.com/davidz/linkup/

Stephen, please see if they fix this bug for you.

Cheers,
David


> Dan
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