Re: hard lock using combination of devices

[Vlasenko Denis]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 02:32, Carl Thompson wrote:
> At the moment I am.  But I also tried native Linux drivers too with the
> same result.  I've tried Windows drivers under DriverLoader and ndiswrapper
> as well as the native Aetheros driver, the native ADMTek driver and another
> native driver the name of which escapes me right now.  It's definitely not
> a driver problem because I've tried several with the same results.
>
> BTW, Driverloader is actually a very slick package.  For 802.11a/g parts,
> it definitely seems to be the way to go if stability is an issue.  While it
> is a commercial product it's worth the $20US if you use high-speed wireless
> cards. Ndiswrapper is also nice but it is not as complete as DriverLoader
> currently and does not work with many cards.  As for the Windows NDIS
> drivers that are run with them, they actually tend to be very stable and I
> have no problem with running them from a "purity" standpoint.  I believe in
> doing what works, and right now nothing is working with Linux.

How can Linux folks fix bugs if kernel contains a binary-only part?

> >>   1:      26061          XT-PIC  i8042
> >>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
> >>   8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
> >>   9:       2020          XT-PIC  acpi
> >>  10:    2187181          XT-PIC  yenta, driverloader
> >>  11:        111          XT-PIC  ALI 5451
> >>  12:    2399118          XT-PIC  i8042
> >>  14:     169829          XT-PIC  ide0
> >>  15:          1          XT-PIC  ide1
> >> NMI:          0
> >> LOC:   41036749 
> >> ERR:     275764

You seem to have lots of ERRs too, ~1 each 2 secs.
That's bad, maybe flakey interrupt controller?
BIOS writers paying dirty with SMM?
I had such problems with 11g card and 'latest' BIOS for
my old mainboard. Older BIOS was ok.
--
vda

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