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 _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
