netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 40372] New: Driver pegasus freeze networking very often so one must reboot to get it to work again

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1108262113000.9188-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:15:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org>,
	Petko Manolov <petkan@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	<csanyipal@...il.com>, <jmm@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 40372] New: Driver pegasus freeze networking
 very often so one must reboot to get it to work again

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40372
> > 
> >            Summary: Driver pegasus freeze networking very often so one
> >                     must reboot to get it to work again

> > Hi,
> > 
> > the driver pegasus freezes networking often so one must to reboot to get
> > networking work again. 
> > 
> > At reboot the system hang.
> > 
> > At this point one must press the Reset button of the PC Box because 
> > the system hangs forever. I can't see any messages on the console screen when I
> > want to reboot at point when system freezes.

How do you know the pegasus driver is responsible for this problem?

Do any error messages show up if you want a few minutes before 
rebooting?  What does the dmesg log say?

Alan Stern

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