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On Saturday 25 November 2006 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I've been upgrading a couple of machines. Things are going fairly |
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> well but there have been a few problems. This one I need to work out |
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> first. |
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> 1) My son's machine was rebuilt with gcc-4 following the upgrade |
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> guide. Everything went well and it finished up yesterday afternoon. |
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> Since I use ndiswrapper on that machine I rebuilt the kernel with |
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> gcc-4 and I rebooted with the new kernel and new drivers. Everything |
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> worked great including wireless, MythTV frontend, Aqualung, etc. |
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> 2) This morning I cold booted and everything worked. I did an eix-sync |
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> and had a couple of things to build so I did that. One of them was new |
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> a udev package. Coldplug was removed from the machine. |
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> 3) I *think* I warm booted at this point and things still worked but |
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> I'm not positive on that. However I then booted the machine into |
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> Windows to check that it was still there for games, and then warm |
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> booted back into Gentoo. At this point wireless was completely gone. I |
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> tried cold booting but that didn't help so I don't think running |
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> Windows made any real difference. |
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> a) /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 stays it's stopped. If I try to start wlan0 |
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> I'm told it doesn't exist. |
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> b) I have the link from net.wlan0 to net.lo. |
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> c) I rebuilt ndiswrapper and it loads. ndiswrapper -l tells me that |
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> the driver is loaded and the device is present. |
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> d) All the basic stuff like route doesn't see the interface, as |
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> expected I guess. |
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> Where might I look for what's gone wrong? |
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> As an aside, the Gentoo kernels remove support for stack size |
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> changes so ndiswrapper complains about the kernel when it's emerged. |
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> Is there a patch to get an 8K stack size option back again? Why does |
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> anyone remove this in the first place instead of just setting it to a |
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> sane default? |
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> Sorry I Cannot send any info from the box but it's off the net. |
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In case you haven't, remerge/modprobe the module for the wifi card. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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