On Saturday 14 November 2009 21:03:09 Oncaphillis wrote: > On 11/14/2009 08:45 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Saturday 14 November 2009 12:24:24 Oncaphillis wrote: > >> 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. > >>> > >>> Report what happens. If some of these steps don't work on your computer, > >>> please > >>> tell what distro you are using. > >>> > >>> Larry > >>> > >> So now I've stripped down the kernel quite a lot and added as many > >> debug options that seem to make sense to me. No ACPI at all and no > >> network device driver except for b43, including low eneregy optins, > >> and PIO mode. If I leave out the b43 driver the kernel boots just > >> fine. If I include it I get the following on the screen: > >> > >> > >> http://oncaphillis.net/IMG_0214.JPG > >> > >> So it seems to me it doesn't even reach the loading of p43.ko > >> but gets stuck in the cfg80211 layer. > > > > Well, there's a TSC message after that, which is completely unrelated to > > cfg80211. > > It could possibly be sleeping in the CRDA call and executes the TSC stuff in > > parallel (given that the TSC message is only a few microseconds later). > > I don't really know how parallelization is done here (if any). > > > >> Any further hints how to proceed in debugging this. > > > > Do you have cfg80211/mac80211 built-in or as modules? The TSC message after > > the cfg80211 message might indicate that it's built-in. > > > It used to be build in, but I successfully built and inserted all > components (including b43) as a module (see my previous message ).
Yeah, ok. That doesn't seem to be a bug in b43 then. It's the CRDA subsystem waiting for a userspace daemon. But it won't finish waiting, because userspace is not running, yet. I guess running cfg80211 as module is an acceptable workaround for now. About your "device is not created" problem: Please enable CONFIG_SSB_DEBUG, reboot and send the result. Also send the output of lspci -vvn. -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
