Hi, I followed instructions at http://dendiz.com/blog/?p=138 on my MacBook Pro 7,1 running Debian Squeeze. Installing ndiswrapper seemed to do something to my kernal... after a reboot my system goes through GRUB but then comes up with:
Setting parameters of disk: none Setting preliminary keycap: done Activating swap… done Checking root file system… fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 /dev/sda3: clean, 154353/11739136 files, 6058946/46948242 blocks done. Cleaning up ifupdown… Setting up networking…. Loading kernal modules… [16.584261] firewire_sbp2: fw1.0: orb reply timed out, rcode=0x11 [16.593534] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed [16.593587] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [16.598551] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed [16.598601] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [21.381619] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed [21.381649] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [77.311460] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 61s! [modprobe:1117] udev[464]: worker [1156] unexpectedly returned with status 0x0100 udevd[464]: worker[1156] failed while handling '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:04:00.0/fw1/fw1.0/host2/target2:0:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdb' I don't know what has happened to my system and whether it can be recovered or not... and can I access any system logs for further information? Steffan