Re: [Madwifi-users] How to use the driver

[Carl T. <ce...@ca...>]

Try it with ACPI just to humor me.  Your saying "everything works fine
except when I do this..."  And I'm saying that means that everything does
_not_ work fine.  Other people using ThinkPads aren't having your problems
and maybe it's because they're using ACPI for IRQ routing?  Besides, with
ACPI you'll get better battery life.  It won't hurt to try, right?

Carl Thompson

Quoting Tino Keitel <tin...@we...>:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 00:20:57 -0700, Carl Thompson wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > It's always best to have as few devices as possible sharing
> > interrupts and most modern computers do their best to spread devices
> > across available interrupts.  I have read somewhere that some newer
> > computers have completely broken IRQ routing _unless_ ACPI is used so
> > you may need to try with ACPI compiled into your kernel.  This is
>
> You only need ACPI if the BIOS in your computer has no PnP-BIOS
> anymore. This is the case in some new notebooks. I think this is what
> you mean with "completely broken IRQ routing". However, my ThinkPad
> runs fine without ACPI, it is rock stable and I had uptimes up to a few
> weeks until I need to reboot to switch to a new kernel.
>
> > definitely starting to sound like an IRQ problem...  Does your BIOS
> > have any options where you might be able to change IRQ assignments?
> > A "Plug-N-Play OS" option?  Options for disabling some of the built
> > in devices?  What type of machine did you say this was again?
>
> It is a ThinkPad A30, and the BIOS is very minimalistic. Like I already
> said, I had absolutely no problems with freezes before. The problem
> only occurs when I use the WLAN card.
>
> [...]
>
> Regards,
> Tino