Re: Kernel Freeze, Atmel at79c505 (RFMD 2958), Fiberline FL-WL240U, usb-uhci.o

Klaus Franken <[email protected]>
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Am Samstag, 10. Januar 2004 21:30 schrieb Joerg Albert:

> > Does anyone have better experiences? Any other ideas?
>
> got my WL240U today. Your crash is caused by a driver bug, which is fixed
> in 0.12beta5 (just checked in, avail. in the snapshot tomorrow).
>
> Unfortunately it just hid another problem: usb-uhci calls the driver's
> disconnect procedure when the device got reset during startup leading to
> _two_ wlanX netdev and a lot of trouble afterwards. uhci doesn't do that,
> nor does the unified uhci-hcd of 2.6.x. I compared uhci and usb-uhci and
> found a small patch to usb-uhci, which helped here (attached in case
> anyone feels like patching usb-uhci and compiling a new kernel).
>
> The problem doesn't show up if you use an external hub.
>
> So I'd recommend to either try and use 0.11, if you must use usb-uhci
> and cannot use an external USB hub or use >= 0.12beta5 with a patched
> usb-uhci. This applies to 2.4.x kernels only.

Hmm, I'm using 0.12beta5 with patched and unpatched usb-uhci.o without succes 
(kernel freezes and Opps ... ).

But if I'm using an USB hub everything seems fine!



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