[hsflinux] Re: System crashes only while surfing on the net with HSFmodem drivers

[Peter Skensved]

>
> Hi,
> I have a Redhat 9 and an olitec PCI 56k and I use HSF drivers which work
> often great. However, sometimes, my system crashes completely
> (impossible to change console or to type something, pushing the reset
> button is the only solution) when I am connected to the internet using
> the drivers. When it happens, all the lights of my keyboard continuously
> flash (caps lock, scroll lock and num lock). I had the same problem on a
> redhat 8 and on my girlfriend computer which is completely different of
> mine. There is nothing particular about this in my syslog traces.
> Any ideas ?
> Thanks for your help
>

  This is a kernel panic .  Do you have APM enabled ?  Or powersave in
the BIOS ? The HSF drivers aren't 100% APM compliant - any kind of a
power event usually resulst in a kernel panic. You can verify this by
switching to a text mode screen, dialling out with dip or minicom or
whatever and waiting for a screen blank or some other power event.
You will get a lot of printout on the screen when the panic happens -

                                               peter
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Peter Skensved                          Email : peter at SNO dot Phy dot QueensU dot CA
Dept. of Physics,
Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada