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. 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. -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
