removing pcmcia card causes crash

[Hornett83]

I have a Dell Latitude D600 laptop, and a sitecom 32 bit gigabit pcmcia cardbus ethernet card (uses the r8169 driver - see http://www.sitecom.com/product.php?productname=Network+Cardbus+Gigalan+10%2F100%2F1000&productcode=CB-005&productid=404&subgroupid=2 ).

It works really well normally, but if I plug in the card then remove it, I can no longer launch any new processes. I don't see any panic, or oops from the kernel but something is clearly getting broken.

Reinserting the card does nothing at all as far as I know, but I cannot tell for sure since I then cannot run dmesg to check.
Certainly though, the LEDs on the device do not light back up.

In Windows, I am able to remove and reinsert the cards as much as I like so I don't think it's a hardware problem.

Also, this exact thing happens if I remove the CD-ROM from the bay (new processes cannot start etc, sometimes get hardlock). Again, this works 100% in XP.

I'm running up-to-date Dapper.

Thanks for reading,
Andy.

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, since this bug have not been deal with for a long time, the information have become much less usefull.
Have you any news on this?
Which version are you running now?

[Hornett83 (hornett83)]

Thanks for your reply, Paul.

Unfortunately, I dropped that laptop about 3 months ago and my new one has no PCMCIA slot or removable drives, so I cannot test this.

I can tell you however that I had exactly the same problem with Dapper, Edgy and Feisty.

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Because we can't investigate more, I am closing this bug.
I hope you will continue to reports bugs. Thanks.