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Seems that Aaron's problem is more substantial than just cardmgr.
I also started to get kernel Oops of the kind (pcmcia unrelated):

  Unable to handle paging request
  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

in Mandrake Linux Release 8.2 (Bluebird)
kernel 2.4.18-6mdk

It looks like the virtual memory management system is buggy (just a
guess).

Question: is it Mandrake's or www.kernel.org problem and who could 
be interested in getting/fixing such bug reports?

Aaron Peromsik writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Last weekend I installed the 8.2 download edition. In general I am
> impressed. However, I can't install on my wife's machine until the
> following shutdown issue is addressed: I get a kernel panic when
> cardmgr tries to shut down.
> 
> My machine is a Sony Vaio F-340, and the card in question is a BusLink
> wireless network card (uses the ray_cs driver). The desktop machine
> which I haven't tried yet has a similar card, WebGear Aviator
> PRO. Both cards and both machines work fine with Mandrake 8.1, except
> that (for both 8.1 and 8.2) I had to manually change the essid in
> /etc/pcmcia/config.opts despite setting it during installation.
> 
> My kernel panic looks like this:
> 
> ---------
> [root@grover root]# service pcmcia stop
> Shutting down PCMCIA services: cardmgrUnable to handle kernel paging request at 
>virtual address ccc6a0001
> *pde = 0b0d4067
> *pte = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<ccc66fd5>]  Not tainted
> EFLAGS: 00010246
> eax: 00000000 ebx: caad3440  ecx: cb6bda00  edx: ccc6a000
> esi: cb0fa800 edi: 00000003  ebp: cb7b1c04  esp: cb6b1bb4
> ds: 0018  es: 0018  ss: 0018
> Process cardmgr (pid: 819, stackpage=cb7b1000)
> Stack: caad3440 00000001 00000003 c010836a 00000003 cb6bda00 cb7b1c04 cb7b1c04
>        00000003 c02bb960 caad3440 c01084ed 00000003 cb7b1c04 caad3440 ccc5e000
>        00000580 cabdf00c ccc5a0c8 c022af98 ccc5e000 00000200 000005d0 00000580
> Call Trace: [<c010836a>] [<c01084ed>] [<ccc5a0c8>] [<ccc5a0c8>] [<ccc50018>]
>    [<ccc5892c>] [<ccc5821d>] [<ccc5a0c8>] [<ccc500a3>] [<ccc51c29>] [<ccc65c3a>]
>    [<ccc68d20>] [<ccc65308>] [<ccc60875>] [<ccc611aa>] [<ccbb8481>] [<ccbabd19>]
>    [<ccbada5f>] [<c01c4f67>] [<c0176b4a>] [<c0125334>] [<c01258ca>] [<c0114de8>]
>    [<c0125d0d>] [<c01260b4>] [<c0141617>] [<c0106f23>]
> 
> Code: 8a 42 01 84 c0 79 0c 89 74 24 10 5b 5e 5f e9 e8 0b 00 00 3c
>  <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
> In interrupt handler - not syncing
> ---------
> 
> I get the same thing when doing just "cardctl eject." But if I take
> the card out manually, the drivers clean themselves up just fine. 
> 
> If there's anything I can do to help track this down please let me
> know. I'd like to see this addressed in updates or at least have a way
> to hack the scripts to work around it so that my wife can start
> using some of the new features of 8.2 on her machine.
> 
> Thanks for an otherwise great distro,
> 
> Aaron Peromsik
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> please CC me directly on any replies
> 
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