PC slot unsupported, and many "cardbus cards are not supported" messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280

The message "cupid kernel: [ 805.200043] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported." occurs 46 times in kern.log (and on the screen while booting).

I've added contents of /var/log/dmesg after booting.

This is still happening with the beta + a number of updates installed as of today.

A really serious problem is that I can't use a console screen (tty1...tty6) because the message keeps repeating on console screens. (Beta Karmic updated as of 3 oct 09)

This was an even more serious problem when I booted this system this morning: this message kept repeating for several minutes, and I was afraid the OS would never finish booting.

The message shows up 199 times in dmesg (attached)

This problem still occurs.

Also, while the internal pcmcia wireless interface works, various cards that I have do not work in the cardbus slot.

The internal wireless controller is:

00:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)

I've attached the /var/log/dmesg file from my current boot of this computer.

As of today, the 'cardbus cards' message no longer appears, but now text consoles are even more unusable - instead of the constant messages, the screen appears as an array of random colors. (see bug report #447595). It is possible to switch in and out of a console with ctrl-alt-Fn and alt-F7, but you can't see what you are doing. I was able to log in blindly to a console, switch back to Gnome, and see the login on the console with `who` in a terminal window.

I'll attach the current dmesg file

Since comment #6, and some updates, what happens now is that the multicolored bitmap screen appears while logging out or shutting down out of Gnome/X.

This is something that used to happen on this system several versions of Ubuntu ago.

Also, on trying to shut down one time, the Shut Down and Restart options were grayed out.

This has started to happen again, as of about yesterday. It is happening now: during bootup, and in consoles tty1 through tty4, the message occurs repeatedly. I have updates through this morning (about 8 am PDT). I do NOT see it in /var/log/dmesg though.

Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"
Linux cupid 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+

tail kern.log gives me

Oct 21 14:34:09 cupid kernel: [ 1049.764041] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 21 14:34:09 cupid kernel: [ 1049.912086] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 21 14:34:10 cupid kernel: [ 1050.764039] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 21 14:34:10 cupid kernel: [ 1050.904027] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 21 14:34:11 cupid kernel: [ 1051.764029] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 21 14:34:11 cupid kernel: [ 1051.904046] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 21 14:34:12 cupid kernel: [ 1052.764044] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 21 14:34:12 cupid kernel: [ 1052.904044] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 21 14:34:13 cupid kernel: [ 1053.764035] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 21 14:34:13 cupid kernel: [ 1053.904045] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power

and kern.log is rapidly increasing in size!

This is now a serious problem due to the rapidly-increasing kern.log

This system is still performing properly running Debian Lenny:

Debian version info:
Linux cupid 2.6.26-2-486 #1 Wed Aug 19 05:40:02 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
5.0.3
lenny

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It's now clear that this is the same as bug #436341 and bug #448911. I just tried this again, reverting to the Ict 13 kernel below:

 Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"
Linux cupid 2.6.31-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 13 02:08:03 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+

All else being unchanged, now I get the multi-color screen reported in the earlier bug, when I try to switch to a text tty, instead of the many cardbus messages. HOWEVER the cardbus messages ARE showing up in kern.log:

root@cupid:~# tail -5 /var/log/kern.log
Oct 22 08:03:18 cupid kernel: [ 1222.896045] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 22 08:03:19 cupid kernel: [ 1223.756049] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 22 08:03:19 cupid kernel: [ 1223.896032] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 22 08:03:20 cupid kernel: [ 1224.756051] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 22 08:03:20 cupid kernel: [ 1224.896031] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
root@cupid:~#

That should have been "... reverting to the Oct 13 kernel ..." in the previous comment.

This is still happening with the RC - I just downloaded the ISO and am running from the CD.

Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"
Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ tail /var/log/kern.log
Oct 23 00:32:36 ubuntu kernel: [ 1553.580030] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: voltage interrogation timed out.
Oct 23 00:32:36 ubuntu kernel: [ 1553.720026] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 23 00:32:46 ubuntu kernel: [ 1564.260040] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: voltage interrogation timed out.
Oct 23 00:32:46 ubuntu kernel: [ 1564.400315] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 23 00:32:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 1574.944045] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: voltage interrogation timed out.
Oct 23 00:32:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 1575.084039] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 23 00:33:08 ubuntu kernel: [ 1585.620633] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: voltage interrogation timed out.
Oct 23 00:33:08 ubuntu kernel: [ 1585.760037] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 23 00:33:18 ubuntu kernel: [ 1596.296039] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: voltage interrogation timed out.
Oct 23 00:33:18 ubuntu kernel: [ 1596.436042] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power

Also grepping for pcmcia in kern.log results in ...

Oct 23 00:34:15 ubuntu kernel: [ 1653.148033] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 23 00:34:15 ubuntu kernel: [ 1653.288027] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 23 00:34:16 ubuntu kernel: [ 1654.148046] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 23 00:34:16 ubuntu kernel: [ 1654.288033] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 23 00:34:29 ubuntu kernel: [ 1666.548026] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: voltage interrogation timed out.
Oct 23 00:34:29 ubuntu kernel: [ 1666.688043] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 23 00:34:39 ubuntu kernel: [ 1677.228052] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: voltage interrogation timed out.
Oct 23 00:34:39 ubuntu kernel: [ 1677.368046] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

On tty consoles, one sees frequent 'cardbus cards are not supported' messages.

Basically the system is not really useable, this is extremely serious.

There's no such problem running Debian lenny on this system (it's a dual boot setup).

This is still happening as of Sat Oct 24 17:49:20 UTC 2009

Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"
Linux cupid 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+

I don't see any messages on the console ttys, but messages are continuously being added to kern.log.
Oct 24 10:50:44 cupid kernel: [ 1563.760034] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 24 10:50:44 cupid kernel: [ 1563.900057] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 24 10:50:45 cupid kernel: [ 1564.760050] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 24 10:50:45 cupid kernel: [ 1564.900398] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power

In addition, cards such as a Netgear WG511T wireless card aren't even recognized by lspci, while this card in particular works under 9.04 (running from a live CD), and worked previously under 9.04 when it was installed on this laptop.

This is still happening today. At some point last night I DID see some messages regarding the cardbus slot on console ttys, but now the main problems are that kern.log is constantly getting filled with new messages and that the cardbus slot is in fact unusable, despite the fact that it does work running Ubuntu 9.04. However the internal cardbus wifi card does work.

This is a real show-stopper for 9.10 on this laptop.

 Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"
Linux cupid 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+

Looking at old, compressed versions of kern.log, I see that this started happening no later than Sept 28, but had not happened as of Aug 26. Unfortunately, my kern.log for dates in between seems to have disappeared. But I reported this problem on 9/24, a bit before the beta release.

This is still happening, with updates as of an hour ago. In addition, the 'cardbus cards are not supported' message is repeated showing on at least one of the console ttys. As before, a couple of similar messages are added to kern.log every second.

The PC card slot is still unusable, but works fine if I boot 9.04 from the live CD - under 9.04 I can use a Netgear WG511T wifi card in that slot without any additional drivers.

Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"
Linux cupid 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+

Apparently there's been no kernel change.

If this isn't fixed, I'll just have to revert back to 9.04 or to some other distro!

This is still happening as of Tue Oct 27 18:30:24 UTC 2009.

A bit of kern.log:

Oct 27 11:28:38 cupid kernel: [15456.028022] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 27 11:28:38 cupid kernel: [15456.168036] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 27 11:28:39 cupid kernel: [15457.028033] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Oct 27 11:28:39 cupid kernel: [15457.168034] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 27 11:28:40 cupid kernel: [15458.028043] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.

However, I am able to use a Netgear WG511T wifi card in the PC slot under both 9.04 and 8.04.3 LTS Ubuntu.

If this is not fixed by release date, I will revert to installing one of those two versions of Ubuntu, and await alphas and betas of 10.04 before attempting to install later versions. This is a very serious problem.

This problem persists running today's Karmic desktop live CD.

Oct 29 19:02:30 ubuntu kernel: [ 1308.700036] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: voltage interrogation timed out.
Oct 29 19:02:30 ubuntu kernel: [ 1308.844069] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 29 19:02:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1319.428035] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: voltage interrogation timed out.
Oct 29 19:02:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1319.568027] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 29 19:02:52 ubuntu kernel: [ 1330.184436] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: voltage interrogation timed out.
Oct 29 19:02:52 ubuntu kernel: [ 1330.324038] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Oct 29 19:03:02 ubuntu kernel: [ 1340.940049] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: voltage interrogation timed out.
Oct 29 19:03:02 ubuntu kernel: [ 1341.080993] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power

The PC card slot still does not work. however kern.log stopped increasing in size after a while.
BUT now the messages sent to the console ttys tty1..tty6 have returned, as described above.

If this is not assigned to anyone after a week or so, I am going to revert to another distro or an earlier version. I can't keep tying up this laptop for a problem no one is willing to investigate!

I am keeping Karmic installed for now, on the hopes that someone will look at it. This is a dual-boot, system, also I have installed Jaunty 9.04 on it to provide a stable platform.

The problem with the cardbus slot being unusable, along with the messages appended to kern.log once a second, persists. Note that the internal Ralink RT2500 Cardbus/mini-PCI wifi card works, while the slot for external cards does not. External cards, such as a Netgear WG511T, DO WORK under 9.04 on this system.

I am appending the output of `lshw`, to provide identification of the hardware involved.

Here is the lshw output.

This is still happening as of today (after the latest update). After booting, I can see that 2 messages per second are being added to kern.log:

$ tail -f /var/log/kern.log
Nov 18 08:36:30 cupid kernel: [ 2980.444036] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Nov 18 08:36:30 cupid kernel: [ 2980.584054] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Nov 18 08:36:31 cupid kernel: [ 2981.444050] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Nov 18 08:36:31 cupid kernel: [ 2981.584026] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power

 Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"
Linux cupid 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+

The internal pcmcia wireless card works, but the slot does not work; however the slot works well in 9.04 and earlier versions. (This system currently dual-boots between 9.04 and 9.10). lshw output is as in the previous attachment.

And the bug is still unassigned.

There may be a relationship to the Openchrome display driver or other component of the X system:

If I open up the gnome-terminal and run `tail -f /var/log/kern.log` I see the 2 messages per second as described in comment #25 above. Also the size of kern.log is constantly increasing.

However, if I switch to a text console (eg tty1) and execute the same command, kern.log does not change - that is, the messages stop.

It's not clear that the display driver or other X software are causing the pcmcia socket from working, or are just causing the messages.

This system has XFCE as well as Gnome installed - when I start XFCE the behavior is somewhat different: As before, cards in the cardbus slot don't work, but the two-per-second messages regarding the cardbus don't happen.

Another problem happens under XFCE: I see at the end of kern.log the following:
Dec 2 10:05:40 cupid kernel: [ 69.603395] Marking TSC unstable due to cpufreq changes
Dec 2 10:05:40 cupid kernel: [ 70.140037] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -250107171 ns)
Dec 2 10:16:28 cupid kernel: [ 717.365985] powernow-k8: Hardware error - pending bit very stuck - no further pstate changes possible
Dec 2 10:16:28 cupid kernel: [ 717.367980] powernow-k8: transition frequency failed
Dec 2 10:16:28 cupid kernel: [ 717.468015] powernow-k8: failing targ, change pending bit set
Dec 2 10:16:28 cupid kernel: [ 717.528083] powernow-k8: error - out of sync, fix 0x0 0x8, vid 0x6 0x6
Dec 2 10:16:28 cupid kernel: [ 717.528095] powernow-k8: ph2 null fid transition 0x8

I believe the powernow-k8 messages only happened after I plugged a card into the cardbus slot - at least they weren't there immediately after booting.

There may be some relationship here to some old bugs regarding powernow-k8 -
#33846 regarding the same Averatec laptop model with a different kernel
#33116 regarding various powernow-k8 problems with various kernels and various computers.

Ubuntu version and kernel version for above comment #27
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"
Linux cupid 2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:54:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+

It's possible I didn't see the powernow-k8 messages earlier due to the frequent cardbus messages which appear under Gnome.

In fact, when I start Gnome, I can see the powernow-k8 messages in kern.log by filtering with grep:

$ grep powernow /var/log/kern.log
Dec 2 09:59:49 cupid kernel: [ 1.016530] powernow-k8: Found 1 Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
Dec 2 09:59:49 cupid kernel: [ 1.016575] powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x8
Dec 2 09:59:49 cupid kernel: [ 1.016578] powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x13
Dec 2 09:59:49 cupid kernel: [ 1.017213] powernow-k8: ph2 null fid transition 0x8
Dec 2 10:05:23 cupid kernel: [ 7.791205] powernow-k8: Found 1 Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
Dec 2 10:05:23 cupid kernel: [ 7.791270] powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x8
Dec 2 10:05:23 cupid kernel: [ 7.791274] powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x13
Dec 2 10:05:23 cupid kernel: [ 7.791909] powernow-k8: ph2 null fid transition 0x8
Dec 2 10:16:28 cupid kernel: [ 717.365985] powernow-k8: Hardware error - pending bit very stuck - no further pstate changes possible
Dec 2 10:16:28 cupid kernel: [ 717.367980] powernow-k8: transition frequency failed
Dec 2 10:16:28 cupid kernel: [ 717.468015] powernow-k8: failing targ, change pending bit set
Dec 2 10:16:28 cupid kernel: [ 717.528083] powernow-k8: error - out of sync, fix 0x0 0x8, vid 0x6 0x6
Dec 2 10:16:28 cupid kernel: [ 717.528095] powernow-k8: ph2 null fid transition 0x8
Dec 2 12:45:27 cupid kernel: [ 1.011204] powernow-k8: Found 1 Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
Dec 2 12:45:27 cupid kernel: [ 1.011255] powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x8
Dec 2 12:45:27 cupid kernel: [ 1.011258] powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x13
Dec 2 12:45:27 cupid kernel: [ 1.011898] powernow-k8: ph2 null fid transition 0x8

But I still have
$ tail -f /var/log/kern.log
Dec 2 12:53:33 cupid kernel: [ 532.884036] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Dec 2 12:53:33 cupid kernel: [ 533.024028] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power
Dec 2 12:53:34 cupid kernel: [ 533.888247] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported.
Dec 2 12:53:34 cupid kernel: [ 534.032157] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: *** DANGER *** unable to remove socket power

This no longer happens running Lucid:

Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu lucid (development branch)"
Linux EROS 2.6.32-7-generic #10-Ubuntu SMP Sun Dec 6 13:43:20 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+

I just reinstalled Karmic on this system, updating with apt-get. The cardbus slot still does not work, and the warning messages are still being appending to kern.log every second.

I'm attaching the list of packages updated as of 2009-12-28 ..

I'm attaching apt-show-versions output for x11, xorg, and gdm packages.

Comment #43 shows the wrong version information. Here is the correct version information for today's Karmic update.

Correction to Comment #33 - Comment #32 has the wrong version information, #33 has the correct version information for today's updates to Karmic.

I reinstalled Karmic on this system today, and updated it as of about 15:00 PST. The kern.log messages no longer appear, and the cardbus slot now works (I was able to use a Netgear WG511T card in it).

I'm enclosing an archive containing the output of apt-show-versions.

Hi Peter,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 436341

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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This is no longer an issue, as of comment #35.
This laptop is a dual-boot into both Karmic and Lucid, and I've been keeping Karmic updated every few days and Lucid updated at least daily.
I just re-checked the cardbus slot - a Netgear WG511T is functioning perfectly in that slot.
The messages to kern.log which I reported earlier, which appeared every few seconds, are no longer appearing.

I'll look at the upstream kernel if there still appears to be an issue.

I am currently running this kernel for Karmic:

2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

I'm not sure that running one of the upstream kernels would be a good idea.

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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