indika wrote:
> Ben Measures wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps the CPU is getting too hot. If your laptop has ACPI support,
>> make sure you've enabled:
>>
>> <*> Thermal Zone
>
> I have to deactivate acpi because of the network card my modules get
> only recognized when acpi is off. I took instead of acpi apm this
> doesn't work either. The network card works but apm does not work right.
> I didn't thought that i really need acpi but when a laptop requires
> this... I think that the processor gets to warm that could be on all
> this long compiling sessions. i will try suse 9.3 on my laptop because
> the support is much better and try gentoo on a destop computer this will
> be much easier for me.

It sounds like your laptop's BIOS ACPI implementation is broken.
Thankfully, there is a workaround.

Simply append
acpi=noirq
to the kernel parameters (in Grub or LILO).

This will disable ACPI for IRQ routing and leave the rest of ACPI (such
as the 'Thermal Zone') enabled. In most cases this should be enough to
get your network card recognised, and still have ACPI manage your CPU's
thermals.

Hth,
--
Ben M.