Larry Finger wrote: > Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > >> Hi people, >> >> I have a kernel panic with latest softmac snapshot and lastest bcm43xx >> revision. Before, I was using the mercurial repository, and with the >> last revision it worked fine. Now i've switched to the git tree, but >> don't want to check out the whole kernel, so I've only picked up the >> snapshots. But i get kernel panick as soon as I try to associate. >> >> Picture: >> >> http://heracles.corsac.net/~corsac/img_9812.jpg >> >> (quite large) >> >> >> What could I do ? (retry with latest mercurial rev ?) > > > Thanks for the picture, but please reduce your camera resolution.
Done >AFAIK, > the mercurial repository is no longer being updated. yes but this version worked here :) > > I am using the full git repository and am not having any problems. With > some patches I recently submitted, I can even use WPA-PSK encryption. I > pulled the latest snapshot just before I started writing this, and > diffed it against the appropriate section of my full tree. Other than my > local patches, there were no differences in ieee80211 or softmac. How should I do that ? Is there a readme or an howto to build modules from the git tree ? > > I have a couple of questions: What module makes your kernel tainted, and > is it possible to run without loading that module? It's bcm43xx: Jan 12 12:32:52 hidalgo kernel: bcm43xx: no version for "ieee80211softmac_wx_set_rate" found: kernel tainted. >Unlicensed binary > modules can have unintended consequences that may show up in wildly > different locations. If I remember correctly, the kernel starts counting > its oopses with #0 whereas your screen showed #1. Can you post the > details from that part of /var/log/messages that covers the run that you > photographed? Yes: Jan 12 12:30:17 hidalgo kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Jan 12 12:30:17 hidalgo kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned on Jan 12 12:30:17 hidalgo kernel: bcm43xx: Chip initialized Jan 12 12:30:17 hidalgo kernel: bcm43xx: DMA initialized Jan 12 12:30:17 hidalgo kernel: bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized Jan 12 12:30:17 hidalgo kernel: bcm43xx: Keys cleared Jan 12 12:30:21 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1 Jan 12 12:30:21 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning 13 channels Jan 12 12:30:28 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning finished Jan 12 12:30:42 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1 Jan 12 12:30:42 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning 13 channels Jan 12 12:30:49 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning finished Jan 12 12:30:59 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Network not known, trying to initiate scan: SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1 Jan 12 12:30:59 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning 13 channels Jan 12 12:30:59 hidalgo kernel: ok. Jan 12 12:31:05 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning finished Jan 12 12:31:05 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Network not known, trying to initiate scan: SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1 Jan 12 12:31:05 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning 13 channels Jan 12 12:31:05 hidalgo kernel: ok. Jan 12 12:31:12 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning finished Jan 12 12:31:12 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Network not known, trying to initiate scan: SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1 Jan 12 12:31:12 hidalgo kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning 13 channels Jan 12 12:31:12 hidalgo kernel: ok. Jan 12 12:32:51 hidalgo syslog-ng[2585]: syslog-ng version 1.6.9 starting No other oops... -- Yves-Alexis Perez
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