[gentoo-user] kernel panics after 'ifconfig wlan0 up'

2009-10-13 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Emergency here. After my eee pc boots I log in and enter '#ifconfig wlan0 up' as usual to take advantage of the free wifi at the coffee shop. Then, just before I enter the next command, the kernel panics and the console freezes. The top line of hexidecimal barf reads:

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panics after 'ifconfig wlan0 up'

2009-10-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Hi group, Emergency here. After my eee pc boots I log in and enter '#ifconfig wlan0 up' as usual to take advantage of the free wifi at the coffee shop. Then, just before I enter the next command, the kernel panics

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panics after 'ifconfig wlan0 up'

2009-10-13 Thread Maxim Wexler
ok, found it. On the sixth I did #make menuconfig make modules_install and rebooted without any problem, everything worked as before. But I neglected to copy over the new kernel. All the fresh modules seeemed to get along fine with the stale kernel for an entire week so it never occured to me