On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:45 AM, James Grossmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Pavel Roskin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:56 -0800, hong zhang wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > I'm also sorry about that, on the other hand, there are
>>> > many schools
>>> > of thought on answering posts, but I don't want this to be
>>> > a
>>> > discussion of that.
>>> > I would just like to get some ideas of what I can debug to
>>> > get some
>>> > answers.  Out of curiosity, is there a way to do a
>>> > continuous
>>> > recording of dmesg to a serial console?  These hangs
>>> > occur regularly,
>>>
>>> Use netconsole but you need two machines.
>>
>> I would never recommend using netconsole to debug a hang in a network
>> driver.  Chances are too high that the hang will block the network stack
>> and prevent the most interesting data from leaving the system.
>>
>> Besides, it's one thing to debug something that is easy to reproduce and
>> that is known to show up on the netconsole.  It's another thing to debug
>> something that may not appear on any console after hours of waiting.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Pavel Roskin
>>
>
> Here is a dmesg containing a hang, the dmesg even notes that there was
> a soft lockup.
> I hope this helps, thanks in advance!
> James
>

I should note that I am now using a different computer with that card,
again, kubuntu, but using the 2.6.32.8 kernel available at
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.32.8/.  I have also
updated to the latest linuxwireless compat drivers.
Thanks again!
James
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