freeze on Dell Inspiron 700m

[Dan Williams]

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.

Dan

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