Hardware detection problems on laptops -- how to file a report?

[Bill Nottingham]

Joe Desbonnet (jdesbonnet at gmail.com) said: 
> 1. During install and after install I no longer had use of my 3Com
> 3CRWE737A 802.11b PC Card (this worked with FC4,3,2,1). This card is
> handled by the orinoco dirver. Even force loading the driver did not
> bring this card to life. I do not think it is a kernel issue -- a grep
> of  "3CRWE737A" on orinoco_cs.ko demonstrates that support for this
> card is still in the kernel.
> The /etc/sysconfig/hwconf entry from FC4 reads:
> class: NETWORK
> bus: PCMCIA
> detached: 0
> device: eth2
> driver: orinoco_cs
> desc: "3Com 3CRWE737A AirConnect Wireless LAN PC Card"
> vendorId: 0101
> deviceId: 0001
> function: 0
> slot: 0

Try either:

blacklist hostap_cs

or

blacklist orinoco_cs

in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.

That may fix things.

> 3. After a few reboots I lose things like battery gauge
> (/proc/acpi/battery directory gone!). This seems to correspond to
> kudzu related errors on boot. I'm sorry -- I didn't capture the exact
> text of the error at the time. I encountered this type of problem
> before where kudzu failed at boot time and made a mess things. I can
> reinstall FC5 and get that error message if it is going to be useful.

That really doesn't make sense... nothing kudzu does would
cause ACPI modules to not get loaded.

Bill