freeze on Dell Inspiron 700m

[Stephen Lau]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:59:41PM -0500, David Zeuthen 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.
> > 
> 
> 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.

It fixes it in the sense that haldaemon will now startup properly.
When I mess around with NetworkManager (the extension that lets me
choose wireless networks to connect to), it still does some funky
dance with eth0 that causes the machine to lock up.
:(

-steve
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