Re: kernel bug

2008-02-23 Thread amc
uploading the pictures as soon as I get my pictures from the camera. - Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:57 PM Subject: Re: kernel bug > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:15 PM,

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-22 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 08:00 -0800, Bayard Coolidge wrote: > So, I went back and attempted to configure Fedora 8 for wireless. > After > a couple of weeks of poking around, I came to the conclusion that it > ain't gonna work - it seems that that the 2.6.23 kernel series just > won't > work with ndis

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-22 Thread Bayard Coolidge
I've been fighting ndiswrapper problems recently as well. My laptop is an HP dv9000z (2GHz AMDx2, 2GB memory, two 80GB drives, GeForce 6150 [I think]) and its wireless card is the infamous Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN MiniPCI (rev.01) which uses the Broadcom 4311 Chipset. I have GRUB stuffed on my fir

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-22 Thread andrew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From: "amc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:15:59 -0500 >> > > >> yes ndiswrapper is patched the /usr/src/linux from the gentoo ebuild. >> when you emerge ndiswrapper it looks at the kernel source and patchs it to >> the kernel. >> then you ca

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-22 Thread VirginSnow
> From: "amc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:15:59 -0500 > yes ndiswrapper is patched the /usr/src/linux from the gentoo ebuild. > when you emerge ndiswrapper it looks at the kernel source and patchs it to > the kernel. > then you can load the ndiswrapper as a module Yuck. _

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:15 PM, amc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes ndiswrapper is patched the /usr/src/linux from the gentoo ebuild. > when you emerge ndiswrapper it looks at the kernel source and patchs it to > the kernel. > then you can load the ndiswrapper as a module As far as I know,

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
l and splashimage grub.conf root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.23 root=/dev/sda2 vga=791 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:49 PM Subject: Re: kernel bug >> From: "amc"

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread VirginSnow
> From: "amc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:44:00 -0500 > I'm not using genkernel but gentoo-sources. I don't use initrd image . IIRC, gentoo-sources is just a patched kernel source package. genkernel uses whatever kernel sources you have to build a bzImage/initrd pair. Are yo

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
I'm not using genkernel but gentoo-sources. I don't use initrd image . - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:25 PM Subject: Re: kernel bug >> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:07:03 -0500 >> From: "Ben Scott

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
I will take a picture of it and upload it when it happens again. - Original Message - From: "Jarod Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "amc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Greater NH Linux User Group" Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:04 PM Subject: Re:

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:07:03 -0500 > From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > build environment, and so on. Also, ndiswrapper is a userland > program, so if ndiswrapper is involved, something is running in > userland. It might be an initrd (initial RAM disk), which runs things > before init

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Set up serial console output if you've got a serial port on your laptop, > or set up kdump to capture a vmcore. Ah, for the good ole days, when everybody had a directly-connected printer and a text console, and you coul

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Jarod Wilson
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:19 AM > Subject: Re: kernel bug > > > > On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:46 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, amc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my lap

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:30 AM, amc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HP pavilion DV6258SE Thanks, that is likely to help. >I haven't tried other distros on it in a while. I love how gentoo portage systems > work. Not saying Gentoo is bad, it just makes tech support difficult. If someone says

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
that was a stupid error . for whatever reason sometimes when I respond it wants to email the person that last sent. sorry about that ben - Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "amc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
- Original Message - From: "amc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:24 AM Subject: Re: kernel bug > HP pavilion DV6258SE . the laptop has had many hardware challenges that I > have solved.

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
- Original Message - From: "amc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jarod Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:26 AM Subject: Re: kernel bug > problem is how do I capture the stack output when the kernel has crashed ? > th

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:46 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, amc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to > time. [...] > > the bug says unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, amc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time. Brand and model of laptop? You mention Gentoo. Have you tried any other distros? Nothing against Gentoo, but the "build everything your

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Alex Hewitt
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:23 AM > Subject: kernel bug > > > I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from > time to time. It doesn't really matter what ker

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
Subject: kernel bug I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time. It doesn't really matter what kernel I use. I upgraded to gentoo-sources- 2.6.23-r8 and the bug says unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 80370665 and gave me a lot of call

kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time. It doesn't really matter what kernel I use. I upgraded to gentoo-sources- 2.6.23-r8 and the bug says unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 80370665 and gave me a lot of call trace info and stack

Linux kernel bug tracking

2003-02-26 Thread Bayard R. Coolidge
At the MELBA (or whatever we call the lower Merrimack Valley chapter these days that meets at Martha's) meeting tonight, we had a brief side discussion about how Linux kernel bugs are tracked. I encountered the following URL for tracking the V2.5 kernel series bugs: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ I d