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 the mercurial repository is no longer being updated.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...



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Yves-Alexis Perez

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