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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird SMP problem
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:43:49
Message-Id: 49bf44f10806090743r2f8d6420t5017ac6c07423ed9@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird SMP problem by Alan McKinnon
1 >> I swapped out my Sempron for an Athlon X2 4000+, but when I have
2 >> "Symmetric multi-processing support" enabled in the
3 >> 2.6.24-hardened-r2 kernel, the system freezes as soon as the madwifi
4 >> wireless interface starts in master mode. Weird. Any ideas?
5 >
6 >
7 >
8 > http://madwifi.org/ticket/1903
9 >
10 > has the solution. Apparently it's a kernel bug, hitting a lot of people
11 > and a workaround is to downgrade to madwifi-0.9.3.3
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13 Thanks Alan. Compiling madwifi-ng-0.9.3.3 I get:
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15 ARCH mismatch: supplied "x86", determined "x86_64".
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17 It's covered here:
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19 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205116
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21 and the solution seems to be upgrade to 0.9.4. Hmmm. I think my only
22 option is to disable SMP support until this is fixed.
23
24 - Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird SMP problem Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>