On 11/13/2009 09:43 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Friday 13 November 2009 21:36:31 Oncaphillis wrote: >> On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote: >> > On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: >> > >> >> Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs >> > >> > We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot to console mode >> (type a 3 on >> > the option line in GRUB), does it boot? If it does not, what is the >> last line >> > shown on the console? If your distro shows a splash screen while >> booting, get >> > rid of it by typing an ESC after booting starts, or eliminate the >> > "splash=silent" option on the boot line. >> > >> > If the previous boot works, log into your usual account. That should >> still work. >> > Next you should type the command startx and immediately press the keys >> > CRTL-ALT-F10. That is hold the CTRL and ALT keys while pressing the >> F10 key. The >> > display should shift to the log console. When the computer freezes, >> report what >> > you see on the screen. It will not scroll, nor can you save it. Write >> it down by >> > hand or take a picture. >> >> Sorry for not giving the details. I'm using Fedora 11 with 2.6.32-rc7 >> kernel. I've turned of the splash screen and boot into runlevel 3. The >> last line I see is that the distro tries to start up udev -- No oops or >> such thing. >> >> I also did the following -- (1) removed the whole /lib/modules/XXX/ tree >> and booted into the kernel. (2) Made "make modules_install;depmod -a". >> If I do a "modprobe b43" it still freezes without any further message. >> Surprisingly if I only remove b43.ko from the module tree it still hangs >> on reboot. Looks like a "inter module" problem to me. The only other > > Looks like not related to b43, to me.
Yes -- but if I leave the kernel config like it is and only leave out b43 it boots fine. > > You could try to enable most of the kernel debugging options in the "kernel > hacking" menu. > Memory corruption, lock debugging and softlockup detection options are the > most interesting. > I'll give that a try. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
