On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: > >> Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs > > We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot to console mode (type a 3 on > the option line in GRUB), does it boot? If it does not, what is the last line > shown on the console? If your distro shows a splash screen while booting, get > rid of it by typing an ESC after booting starts, or eliminate the > "splash=silent" option on the boot line. > > If the previous boot works, log into your usual account. That should still work. > Next you should type the command startx and immediately press the keys > CRTL-ALT-F10. That is hold the CTRL and ALT keys while pressing the F10 key. The > display should shift to the log console. When the computer freezes, report what > you see on the screen. It will not scroll, nor can you save it. Write it down by > hand or take a picture.
Sorry for not giving the details. I'm using Fedora 11 with 2.6.32-rc7 kernel. I've turned of the splash screen and boot into runlevel 3. The last line I see is that the distro tries to start up udev -- No oops or such thing. I also did the following -- (1) removed the whole /lib/modules/XXX/ tree and booted into the kernel. (2) Made "make modules_install;depmod -a". If I do a "modprobe b43" it still freezes without any further message. Surprisingly if I only remove b43.ko from the module tree it still hangs on reboot. Looks like a "inter module" problem to me. The only other modules I hold are arl1.ko, atl1e.ko,atl1c.ko mii.ko and scsi_wait_scan.ko but the only one being loaded seems to be atl1c.ko I actually do not have any firmware installed yet and I had a look at the code ( also I'm not a kernel hacker) and I see that it should bail out properly if it fails to find (and|or) initialize the firmware. So it seems to fail quite early. There used to be a kernel option that makes it extra verbose. What was that ? Thanks Sebastian > Report what happens. If some of these steps don't work on your computer, please > tell what distro you are using. > > Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
