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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
