On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Justin Cormack wrote:
> > > > Doesnt irattach just modprobe it anyway?
> > >
> > > Before running the irattach, I always make sure the following modules are
> > > installed:
> > > irda
> > > irtty
> > > ircomm
> > > ircomm-tty
> > > girbil
> > >
> > > ...then it works fine for me.
> >
> > Ah, at last. I think the problem was
> > (a) not having ircomm-tty and irtty installed
> > (b) having irlan installed (for no particular reason).
> >
> > but it is working again now. Thanks!
>
> well, almost working. irattach oopses when you remove it (it doesnt on
> an internal port).
>
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring irattach: exiting ...
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
>virtual address 00000008
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: printing eip:
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: c011511e
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: *pde = 00000000
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: Oops: 0000
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: CPU: 0
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: EIP: 0010:[exec_usermodehelper+734/944]
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c1118420 ecx: c0c0eab0 edx:
>c0c0eaa4
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: esi: c0750000 edi: c0750000 ebp: 00000000 esp:
>c0751fb0
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: Process irattach (pid: 891, stackpage=c0751000) Dec
>5 16:02:59 herring kernel: Stack: 00000100 c0791dc0 c0790000 c0757000 c3d51ee0
>c1e99ee0 c1118420 c11f4b60
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: c11f4b60 c1118420 c11f4b60 c11f4b60 c0115440
>c0207f60 c0791e7c c0791e68
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: c0108a37 c0791dec c0791dec c0791e7c
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: Call Trace: [exec_helper+20/24] [kernel_thread+35/48]
> Dec 5 16:02:59 herring kernel: Code: 3b 68 08 7d 2a 8b 40 14 83 3c a8 00 74 15 b8
>06 00 00 00 89
I've never seen it oops on detach, but it has totally fallen over on me
SOMETIMES when attaching...
And yes, I'd also like to know why.
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