Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Jason Carson <jason@×××××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Bridging
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:53:26
Message-Id: b0c789745822409a78f49c0597ce6158.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Bridging by Jason Carson
1 >> I am following this guide to setup my wireless access point.
2 >>
3 >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Wireless/Access_point#Bridging_the_wired_.26_wireless_segments
4 >>
5 >> I have my network up and running with WPA.
6 >>
7 >> When I configured my kernel to use bridging (compiled into the kernel,
8 >> not
9 >> as a module) and rebooted I got a kernel panic, It was a whole screen
10 >> full
11 >> of stuff.
12 >>
13 >> Here is some of it I manually typed out...
14 >>
15 >> Oops: 0002 [#1]
16 >> Modules linked in: wlan_scan_ap ath_rate_sample ath_pci wlan ath_hal(P)
17 >> Pid: 4033, comm:runscript.sh Tainted: P (2.6.24.7 #3)
18 >> EIP: 0060: stuff
19 >> EIP is at ieee80211_add country+0x8f/0xd0 [wlan]
20 >> Stack: Bunch of numbers
21 >> Call Trace: bunch of stuff
22 >> Code: numbers and letters.
23 >> kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt.
24 >>
25 >> Anyone know what to do?
26 >
27 > This kernel panic happened while loading ath0 on startup.
28 >
29 ok,I installed a newer kernel (2.6.25.9) and the problem went away.