(I'm not subscribed yet, so I can't followup to the thread, sorry) I'm running 2.4.22-pre7 + lmsensors 2.7.0 patches on my Fujitsu P2120 (Ali chipset) and I see the same problem where I can't rmmod my network drivers (unregister_netdevice: waiting for ethX to become free. Usage count = 2). I don't have IPSEC enabled, though I did build the IPv6 netfilter modules (CONFIG_IPV6=m, CONFIG_IP6_NF_*=m). IPv6 support is enabled automatically even though I commented out NETWORKING_IPV6=yes in my /etc/sysconfig/network file (RH 9 distro + custom kernel). rmmod of network drivers always result in the 'waiting for ethX...' message. With the built-in Realtek 8139, I can shutdown/poweroff fine (though I can't rmmod), but if I inserted a Cisco Aironet 350 PC-Card, I won't be able to shut down cleanly since the card doesn't unload, and /var can't be unmounted as it has open files. I've tried Daniel Ritz's airo.c patches posted recently but it doesn't fix this problem. Booting with acpi=off doesn't have any effect on this problem, which has persisted since the 2.4.22-preX series. The supplied RH kernel 2.4.20-18.9 doesn't have this problem (but it doesn't have ACPI support needed for USB 2.0 either). T.C. ---- Wan Tat Chee (Lecturer) School of Computer Science, Univ. Science Malaysia, 11800 Minden, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653-3888 x 3617 NRG Lab Admin: +604 659-4757 Rm.601-E Ofc Ph: +604 653-4396 Internet: tcwan@cs.usm.my Web: http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan GPG Key : http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan/tcw_gpg-20030322.asc F'print : DCF2 B9B2 FA4D 1208 AD59 14CA 9A8F F54D B2C4 63C7 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
