Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[bvermeul]

Hi,

I'm having some problems with 2.5.71 (latest bk yesterday I believe).
All works well (pcmcia works as advertised, with one tiny blip on
the horizon), except when I want to reboot, when I get the following
message:

unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 1

The net device is an Orinoco mini-pci card (eg, cardbus minipci interface 
with built-in orinoco card), and it is down.

I'm not sure what causes this, and it's started somewhere in 2.5.70 bk.

Hope this report helps,

Bas Vermeulen

Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[Russell King]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:29:00AM +0200, bvermeul@blackstar.nl wrote:
> I'm having some problems with 2.5.71 (latest bk yesterday I believe).
> All works well (pcmcia works as advertised, with one tiny blip on
> the horizon), except when I want to reboot, when I get the following
> message:
> 
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 1
> 
> The net device is an Orinoco mini-pci card (eg, cardbus minipci interface 
> with built-in orinoco card), and it is down.
> 
> I'm not sure what causes this, and it's started somewhere in 2.5.70 bk.

I believe this is a netdevice problem and isn't anything to do with
PCMCIA or Cardbus.  If the net people would like to confirm this, it'd
be most helpful.

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             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[bvermeul]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Russell King wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:29:00AM +0200, bvermeul@blackstar.nl wrote:
> > I'm having some problems with 2.5.71 (latest bk yesterday I believe).
> > All works well (pcmcia works as advertised, with one tiny blip on
> > the horizon), except when I want to reboot, when I get the following
> > message:
> > 
> > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > 
> > The net device is an Orinoco mini-pci card (eg, cardbus minipci interface 
> > with built-in orinoco card), and it is down.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what causes this, and it's started somewhere in 2.5.70 bk.
> 
> I believe this is a netdevice problem and isn't anything to do with
> PCMCIA or Cardbus.  If the net people would like to confirm this, it'd
> be most helpful.

I'm also using a RTL8139 cardbus card, and that does not show this 
particular problem (works great actually).
So I'm not so sure it is a netdevice problem. It may be a orinoco
problem, but I'm not entirely sure what's causing it.
Just wanted to see if anyone's noticed it as well, and if a fix was
out there.

Bas Vermeulen

Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Tue, 2003-06-17 12:01:40 +0200, bvermeul@blackstar.nl <bvermeul@blackstar.nl>
wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306171159470.1854-100000@blackstar.nl>:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Russell King wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:29:00AM +0200, bvermeul@blackstar.nl wrote:
> > > I'm having some problems with 2.5.71 (latest bk yesterday I believe).
> > > All works well (pcmcia works as advertised, with one tiny blip on
> > > the horizon), except when I want to reboot, when I get the following
> > > message:
> > > 
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > > 
> > > The net device is an Orinoco mini-pci card (eg, cardbus minipci interface 
> > > with built-in orinoco card), and it is down.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure what causes this, and it's started somewhere in 2.5.70 bk.
> > 
> > I believe this is a netdevice problem and isn't anything to do with
> > PCMCIA or Cardbus.  If the net people would like to confirm this, it'd
> > be most helpful.
> 
> I'm also using a RTL8139 cardbus card, and that does not show this 
> particular problem (works great actually).
> So I'm not so sure it is a netdevice problem. It may be a orinoco
> problem, but I'm not entirely sure what's causing it.
> Just wanted to see if anyone's noticed it as well, and if a fix was
> out there.

I'm not sure, but for what I *see* (using a PCMCIA NE2000 clone with my
Laptop) this problem occures by this:

- Insert your card (after "/etc/init.d/pcmcia-cs start" is done, that
  card will be recognized and configured).
- shutdown your laptop. This involves "/etc/init.d/pcmcia-cs stop".
- _Later on_ (after the card should already have gone away because
  you've just stopped the pcmcia subsystem), "/etc/init.d/networking
  stop" tried to "ifconfig ethX down" the card - Bang.

The cardbus/hotplug stuff might be different here. I think this is
solely a problem of the pure PCMCIA stuff...

MfG, JBG

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Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[John M Flinchbaugh]

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:01:40PM +0200, bvermeul@blackstar.nl wrote:
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > > The net device is an Orinoco mini-pci card (eg, cardbus minipci interface 
> > > with built-in orinoco card), and it is down.
> I'm also using a RTL8139 cardbus card, and that does not show this 
> particular problem (works great actually).
> So I'm not so sure it is a netdevice problem. It may be a orinoco
> problem, but I'm not entirely sure what's causing it.
> Just wanted to see if anyone's noticed it as well, and if a fix was
> out there.

i've been seeing the problem for a while with my orinoco_cs and
3c574_cs, so you're not alone.  i'm using debian unstable.
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Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[David S. Miller]

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 03:01, bvermeul@blackstar.nl wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Russell King wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:29:00AM +0200, bvermeul@blackstar.nl wrote:
> > > I'm having some problems with 2.5.71 (latest bk yesterday I believe).
> > > All works well (pcmcia works as advertised, with one tiny blip on
> > > the horizon), except when I want to reboot, when I get the following
> > > message:
> > > 
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > > 
> > > The net device is an Orinoco mini-pci card (eg, cardbus minipci interface 
> > > with built-in orinoco card), and it is down.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure what causes this, and it's started somewhere in 2.5.70 bk.
> > 
> > I believe this is a netdevice problem and isn't anything to do with
> > PCMCIA or Cardbus.  If the net people would like to confirm this, it'd
> > be most helpful.
> 
> I'm also using a RTL8139 cardbus card, and that does not show this 
> particular problem (works great actually).
> So I'm not so sure it is a netdevice problem. It may be a orinoco
> problem, but I'm not entirely sure what's causing it.
> Just wanted to see if anyone's noticed it as well, and if a fix was
> out there.
> 
> Bas Vermeulen
> 
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Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[David S. Miller]

It might help to actually report this to the "networking"
lists, because that's where the "networking" people hang
out, not here.

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Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[Russell King]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:29:00AM +0200, bvermeul@blackstar.nl wrote:
> I'm having some problems with 2.5.71 (latest bk yesterday I believe).
> All works well (pcmcia works as advertised, with one tiny blip on
> the horizon), except when I want to reboot, when I get the following
> message:
> 
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 1

Is this still an outstanding problem in 2.5.73?

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Mon, 2003-06-23 10:38:15 +0100, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
wrote in message <20030623103815.E23411@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:29:00AM +0200, bvermeul@blackstar.nl wrote:
> > I'm having some problems with 2.5.71 (latest bk yesterday I believe).
> > All works well (pcmcia works as advertised, with one tiny blip on
> > the horizon), except when I want to reboot, when I get the following
> > message:
> > 
> > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 1
> 
> Is this still an outstanding problem in 2.5.73?

I haven't shut down my laptop since I booted it with 2.5.73, but I can
do so this evening.

MfG, JBG

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Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Mon, 2003-06-23 15:37:46 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
wrote in message <20030623133746.GE6353@lug-owl.de>:
> On Mon, 2003-06-23 10:38:15 +0100, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
> wrote in message <20030623103815.E23411@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>:
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:29:00AM +0200, bvermeul@blackstar.nl wrote:
> > > I'm having some problems with 2.5.71 (latest bk yesterday I believe).
> > > All works well (pcmcia works as advertised, with one tiny blip on
> > > the horizon), except when I want to reboot, when I get the following
> > > message:
> > > 
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > 
> > Is this still an outstanding problem in 2.5.73?
> 
> I haven't shut down my laptop since I booted it with 2.5.73, but I can
> do so this evening.

Here's my reading off the screen:

	- /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop
	- The network card's lights go off
	- Above mentioned message starts and repeats every n seconds
	- /etc/init.d/networking stop is being executed, but doesn't
	  seem to stop the message. Though, it takes longer than
	  previously
	- The message appears last time just before APM powers my laptop
	  off...

This is with:

baerchen:~# uname -a
Linux baerchen 2.5.73 #1 Sun Jun 22 23:53:45 CEST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
baerchen:~# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
  product info: "Xircom", "CreditCard 10/100", "CE3-10/100", "1.00"
  manfid: 0x0105, 0x010a
  function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
  no product info available


MfG, JBG

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Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[John M Flinchbaugh]

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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:38:15AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count 
= 1
> Is this still an outstanding problem in 2.5.73?

i still see it with both my 3c574_cs and my orinoco_cs in 2.5.73.
this one is elusive, isn't it?  if i were smarter, i'd try to track it
down.  maybe i'll look at it again, not that i know anything.
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Re: Problems with PCMCIA/Orinoco

[Bas Vermeulen]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, John M Flinchbaugh wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:38:15AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count 
> = 1
> > Is this still an outstanding problem in 2.5.73?
> 
> i still see it with both my 3c574_cs and my orinoco_cs in 2.5.73.
> this one is elusive, isn't it?  if i were smarter, i'd try to track it
> down.  maybe i'll look at it again, not that i know anything.

Still see it here as well. I'll try to track it down tonight, when I've 
got some free time on my hands.

Bas Vermeulen

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