On Sun, January 7, 2007 10:46 pm, Gus Wirth wrote:
> Lan Barnes wrote:

>> OK, last report on the myth box of the night.
>>
>> It started throwing kernel panics. I downloaded and burned a bootable CD
>> with memtest86 (last time I did that it was a floppy). The box started
>> throwing buckets of errors.
>>
>> I pulled the mem sticks. One had what looked like a tent caterpillar
>> nest
>> on the pins. I wiped it clean, replaced it, and tried the test again.
>> Perfection.  No panics since.
>>

Ran it overnight sans cobweb. Perfect in the morning <phew!>

My son asked how the web got in there -- I said maybe the spider was
looking for bugs. He laughed anyway ...

>
> You are thinking backwards. The dependency chain of the modules is:
>
> orinoco-pci -> orinoco -> hermes
>

Got that figured out

> In other words, you can load hermes by itself, orinoco depends on
> hermes, and orinoco-pci depends on orinoco. The output of lsmod should
> look like this:
>
> $ lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> orinoco_pci             8013  0
> orinoco                40405  1 orinoco_pci
> hermes                  7745  2 orinoco_pci,orinoco
> .

Exactly.

 alias wifi0 orinoco_pci

> .
> .
>
>
> Is your default route set properly?

See, that's why I need help. I know this, but I forget. I'll check tonight.

>
> What is the output of route -n?

Tonight

>
> Because you have two network interfaces you might be trying to go out
> the wrong interface unless they are set up for different networks or the
> built-in wired interface is disabled by either blacklisting or not
> bringing it up.
>

yup. There is no reason not to blacklist eth0 on this box, and I'm gonna
do it.

> What does iwlist tell you?
>
> # iwlist wifi0 scan

Tonight

>
> It should show you your access point and tell you that the connection is
> encrypted. If iwlist doesn't show you anything then either the card
> really isn't activated or there is a problem with your access point.
>

"access point" meaning the wireless router? Because it's working fine for
the laptop.

> I'm willing to let you drag the box over to my house for demoli
> ^H^H^H^H^H setup and testing.
>

You're a saint. I think we're really close. I don't think a road trip is
going to be necessary. If it is, I'm thinking the Saturday installfest.

-- 
Lan Barnes

SCM Analyst              Linux Guy
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast        Biodiesel Brewer


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