Re: kernel bug

2008-02-23 Thread amc
be uploading the pictures as soon as I get my pictures from the camera. - Original Message - From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:57 PM Subject: Re: kernel bug On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:15 PM, amc

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-22 Thread VirginSnow
From: amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:15:59 -0500 yes ndiswrapper is patched the /usr/src/linux from the gentoo ebuild. when you emerge ndiswrapper it looks at the kernel source and patchs it to the kernel. then you can load the ndiswrapper as a module Yuck.

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-22 Thread andrew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:15:59 -0500 yes ndiswrapper is patched the /usr/src/linux from the gentoo ebuild. when you emerge ndiswrapper it looks at the kernel source and patchs it to the kernel. then you can load the

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-22 Thread Bayard Coolidge
I've been fighting ndiswrapper problems recently as well. My laptop is an HP dv9000z (2GHz AMDx2, 2GB memory, two 80GB drives, GeForce 6150 [I think]) and its wireless card is the infamous Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN MiniPCI (rev.01) which uses the Broadcom 4311 Chipset. I have GRUB stuffed on my

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-22 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 08:00 -0800, Bayard Coolidge wrote: So, I went back and attempted to configure Fedora 8 for wireless. After a couple of weeks of poking around, I came to the conclusion that it ain't gonna work - it seems that that the 2.6.23 kernel series just won't work with

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
Subject: kernel bug I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time. It doesn't really matter what kernel I use. I upgraded to gentoo-sources- 2.6.23-r8 and the bug says unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 80370665 and gave me a lot of call trace

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Alex Hewitt
@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:23 AM Subject: kernel bug I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time. It doesn't really matter what kernel I use. I upgraded to gentoo-sources- 2.6.23

kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time. It doesn't really matter what kernel I use. I upgraded to gentoo-sources- 2.6.23-r8 and the bug says unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 80370665 and gave me a lot of call trace info and stack info

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time. Brand and model of laptop? You mention Gentoo. Have you tried any other distros? Nothing against Gentoo, but the build everything yourself approach means

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
- Original Message - From: amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:26 AM Subject: Re: kernel bug problem is how do I capture the stack output when the kernel has crashed ? there seems to be no log entry of kernel crashes. like I

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
that was a stupid error . for whatever reason sometimes when I respond it wants to email the person that last sent. sorry about that ben - Original Message - From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:41 AM Subject: Re: kernel bug

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
- Original Message - From: amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:24 AM Subject: Re: kernel bug HP pavilion DV6258SE . the laptop has had many hardware challenges that I have solved. I haven't tried other distros on it in a while

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:30 AM, amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HP pavilion DV6258SE Thanks, that is likely to help. I haven't tried other distros on it in a while. I love how gentoo portage systems work. Not saying Gentoo is bad, it just makes tech support difficult. If someone says I'm

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:46 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time. [...] the bug says unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 80370665 and gave me

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Jarod Wilson
Subject: Re: kernel bug On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:46 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time. [...] the bug says unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:07:03 -0500 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] build environment, and so on. Also, ndiswrapper is a userland program, so if ndiswrapper is involved, something is running in userland. It might be an initrd (initial RAM disk), which runs things before init starts.

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
I will take a picture of it and upload it when it happens again. - Original Message - From: Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:04 PM Subject: Re: kernel bug I'm

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
I'm not using genkernel but gentoo-sources. I don't use initrd image . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:25 PM Subject: Re: kernel bug Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:07:03 -0500 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set up serial console output if you've got a serial port on your laptop, or set up kdump to capture a vmcore. Ah, for the good ole days, when everybody had a directly-connected printer and a text console, and you could

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread VirginSnow
From: amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:44:00 -0500 I'm not using genkernel but gentoo-sources. I don't use initrd image . IIRC, gentoo-sources is just a patched kernel source package. genkernel uses whatever kernel sources you have to build a bzImage/initrd pair. Are you SURE

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
and splashimage grub.conf root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.23 root=/dev/sda2 vga=791 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:49 PM Subject: Re: kernel bug From: amc

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:15 PM, amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes ndiswrapper is patched the /usr/src/linux from the gentoo ebuild. when you emerge ndiswrapper it looks at the kernel source and patchs it to the kernel. then you can load the ndiswrapper as a module As far as I know,