CentOS - Dec 2007 - System freezes with i8042_panic_blink on suspend

Hello,

I am using CentOS 4.6 (2.6.9-67.plus.c4) on a toshiba tecra 8000
notebook. If closing the panel, "Panel Power On/Off" is enabled in
bios, the notebook does suspend. But after opening the panel, the
notebook completely freezes. If the suspend only takes a few minutes,
then everything is working fine. But if the suspend takes a time more
than five or ten minutes, the system completely freezes. The error
message is:

[<c032bbe7>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[<c032007b>] xfrm_find_acq_byseq+0x100/0x10f
Badness in i8042_panic_blink at drivers/input/serio/i8042.c:992
[<c0254fe6>] i8042_panic_blink+0x188/0x1a0
[<c0123ea2>] panic+0xf7/0x142
[<c010cd7a>] set_rtc_mmss+0x6c/0x204

My system:

# cat /etc/grub.conf | grep kernel 
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.plus.c4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
noapic acpi=off rhgb quiet

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host
bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02)
00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200
[MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 12)
00:05.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:05.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev
01)
00:05.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev
01)
00:05.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:09.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port
(rev 23)
00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05)
00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05)
05:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI

The system freezes too, if com-ports and sound is disabled in bios.

Could the network controller 'RaLink' causes this problem?

I am using the centosplus kernel cause of its support for isa sound
cards. Is there an other kernel with that I could avoid this panic?

Thank you very much!


regards
Olaf