| Here is an email I sent to the author of the pegasus NIC, I'll post his responce when I get his permission. This email is about user land APMD. In short, if you hit the power button to turnon powersaving, the kernel will opps. If you try to unplug the USB NIC after the opps, the kernel will panic and lock. When you reboot, there are errors all over the file system. When you have APMD disabled (the daemon) but still have the APM turned on in the BIOS. When ever the power saving comes on, it will cut off the ethernet connection, and will resume as soon as you bring it out of power saving. Turning off the APM in the BIOS, and the kernel, and not running APMD, and letting linuxs own screensaver/power mode run, works fine. I guess you can't turn off the LCD, for now.
Pug Fantus wrote:
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> Petkan,
> Hi, how are you doing? Well.. I finally got a chance to use your
> drivers. (remember, I was asking you about the D-Link drivers a couple
> weeks ago?) I gave up on the DLink adpators. Too hard to get a 650tx.
> I went with the SMC. Well.. testing everything out tonight. I found a
> HUGE kernel bug that your driver might be a part of. When I get the SMC
> working again (it's the only net connection I have) I'll send you the
> kernel ooops if you like. But I'll give you a little back ground to
> what is happening. I"m using the SMC on a Netpliance I-Opener with a
> fresh install of RedHat 6.2 and kernel 2.3.99-pre5. When ever I hit the
> power switch to send the IO into supend mode, the SMC tries to
> disconnect itself, but it can't, so usb-uhci-debug goes wild all over
> it. Just line after line after line of errors in the syslog. Then a
> kernel opps. I've tested this out a couple times (and it thrashes the
> fs too) and it's a repeatable error. If you try to unplug the SMC,
> the kernel panics and dies a horible death. I hope this is in anyway
> helpful, and like I said, when I get it up and running again. I'll get
> you a copy of my syslog. Well... I'll talk to you later. | |
