Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-25 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-26 06:55... > Try: > echo none > "/sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0:RX/trigger" > echo none > "/sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0:TX/trigger" > > Give at a minute or so... > and if it works, then make it permanent with 2 lines in /etc/sysfs.conf: > class/leds/iwl-phy0:RX/trigger = none > class

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-25 Thread green
Matthew Smith wrote at 2009-03-24 23:31 -0600: > I am indeed using iwl3945 as I'm using kernel 2.6.26 for day-to-day > operations. The main annoyance is that it makes the wireless light > blink (before it was either on or off) which is going to require either > tracking down how it does it and dis

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-24 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-25 14:26... > This is off-topic for the thread, but > I am happy with my 3945ABG: it works good with 2.6.26 (though I don't know > about before that). I suppose you are using iwl3945 now; if you are not (are > using ipw3945 and ipw3945d) be sure to try out iwl3945. Of cou

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-24 Thread green
Matthew Smith wrote at 2009-03-16 23:18 -0600: > It even found my horrible Intel > 3945ABG card which is usually a real pig to get to work. It didn't work > - complaining about something which I intepreted as a missing firmware > package; but it found it, which is quite amazing! This is off

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-16 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-14 03:28... Also, you may want to try using the Debian linux-image-2.6.24 package¹. I think it corresponds to 2.6.24.7, so if it works you should be able to install linux-source-2.6.24², patch that source with the realtime patches, and then use make-kpkg in the kernel-pa

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-13 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Matthew Smith (m...@smiffytech.com) [13.03.09 23:47]: > Quoth green at 2009-03-14 03:28... > > If the stock Debian kernel works, have you tried using that config for your > > kernel? > This is something that I have avoided as I have read in various places > that there are often incompatible cha

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-13 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-14 03:28... If the stock Debian kernel works, have you tried using that config for your kernel? This is something that I have avoided as I have read in various places that there are often incompatible changes between minor versions (like from 2.6.18 to 2.6.24). This also

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-13 Thread Matthew Smith
Hi Mike Out of curiosity, how do your lockups manifest themselves? Do you get a flashing CAPS-LOCK light, perchance? What you are seeing is a kernel panic. If you want to debug that, Google for "magic sysrq" - it should get you on the right track. (It's a kernel configuration option that

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-13 Thread green
Matthew Smith wrote at 2009-03-13 03:19 -0600: > All has gone well so far, but I am experiencing issues trying to boot > the external disc with anything but the Debian stock kernel. Here are > the facts: > > * I am booting from Grub on the internal disc. > > * With the Debian kernel, the external d

Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-13 Thread Matthew Smith
[Apologies for this re-post - not normally my way; however, I wanted to be sure that this was a case of nobody being able to/wanting to answer this rather than having sent at a bad time and having it slip under the radar.] Hi Just to give a little background, after 3 years of running Gentoo (