On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Oliver Pinter wrote: > On 2/15/08, Andrew Buehler <abuehler.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In my workplace, I use a customized version of Novell's ZENworks imaging > > boot CD, which is based off of Linux. I have one particular model of > > laptop - the IBM/Lenovo R61 - on which three different things fail > > completely in current kernels (tested with 2.6.24.2 and 2.6.25-rc1): > > USB, AHCI (and thus access to the SATA drive), and networking. As a > > consequence of all three failing in parallel, I have no practical way to > > get logs and other information off of the machine to help with tracking > > down the bugs. ... To make a long story short, the USB symptoms you describe indicate a problem with interrupt routing. This could well explain the other difficulties too. There are various kernel parameters you can try putting on the boot command line to work around it: acpi=noirq or acpi=off or pci=noacpi or a few others. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
