On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:10:16PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > It appears that the ath5k wireless driver is crashing my system. It > leaves almost no info in the logs when it does so (and thus has taken > several weeks to find). > > Should I report that as a bug against the appropriate kernel image (the > standard Lenny amd64), or take it directly upstream? > > Also, if anyone has any advice on how to proceed, even just how to get > more info about the failures, would be great. > > The system is new hardware (2 CPU x 4 core each Xeon) running a fresh > install of Lenny. > Linux version 2.6.26-1-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-13) > it does not (yet) have the latest security fixes. > I'm not actually using the wireless--it doesn't have the password for > the local network. I may need the wireless later. > > The system stayed up over a week with ath5k unloaded and blacklisted; > before it was crashing c. daily. I just loaded the driver, and the > system crashed about 20 hours later. > > I'd appreciate if you cc'd me on the response.
I'd suggest trying with the latest available trunk snapshot kernel (see http://wiki.debian.org/) and, if its still causing a problem, report upstream at bugzilla.kernel.org. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
