Re: 2.6 kernel issues

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2.6 kernel issues > > Steven Jones wrote: > >Is there any alternative apt-get sources that allow me not to upgrade > >my kernel in stable? The new 2.6 kernel I am forced to use wont boot > >on my scsi raid card, it panics > > Does any

Re: 2.6 kernel issues

2009-04-07 Thread Spiro Harvey
Steven Jones wrote: > Is there any alternative apt-get sources that allow me not to upgrade > my kernel in stable? The new 2.6 kernel I am forced to use wont boot > on my scsi raid card, it panics Steven, replying to another thread and changing the subject line throws out threaded mail client

RE: 2.6 kernel issues

2009-04-07 Thread Steven Jones
: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:b...@iguanasuicide.net] Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2009 2:17 p.m. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2.6 kernel issues In <61df826607311a4ebe75a77ed59e4cde114023a...@stawincoexmail1.staff.vuw.ac.nz>, Steven Jones wrote: >Is there any alternativ

Re: 2.6 kernel issues

2009-04-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <61df826607311a4ebe75a77ed59e4cde114023a...@stawincoexmail1.staff.vuw.ac.nz>, Steven Jones wrote: >Is there any alternative apt-get sources that allow me not to upgrade my > kernel in stable? The new 2.6 kernel I am forced to use wont boot on my > scsi raid card, it panics Does any 2.6 ke

2.6 kernel issues

2009-04-07 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Is there any alternative apt-get sources that allow me not to upgrade my kernel in stable? The new 2.6 kernel I am forced to use wont boot on my scsi raid card, it panics regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-25 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-26 06:55... > Try: > echo none > "/sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0:RX/trigger" > echo none > "/sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0:TX/trigger" > > Give at a minute or so... > and if it works, then make it permanent with 2 lines in /etc/sysfs.conf: > class/leds/iwl-phy0:RX/trigger = none > class

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-25 Thread green
Matthew Smith wrote at 2009-03-24 23:31 -0600: > I am indeed using iwl3945 as I'm using kernel 2.6.26 for day-to-day > operations. The main annoyance is that it makes the wireless light > blink (before it was either on or off) which is going to require either > tracking down how it does it and dis

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-24 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-25 14:26... > This is off-topic for the thread, but > I am happy with my 3945ABG: it works good with 2.6.26 (though I don't know > about before that). I suppose you are using iwl3945 now; if you are not (are > using ipw3945 and ipw3945d) be sure to try out iwl3945. Of cou

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-24 Thread green
Matthew Smith wrote at 2009-03-16 23:18 -0600: > It even found my horrible Intel > 3945ABG card which is usually a real pig to get to work. It didn't work > - complaining about something which I intepreted as a missing firmware > package; but it found it, which is quite amazing! This is off

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-16 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-14 03:28... Also, you may want to try using the Debian linux-image-2.6.24 package¹. I think it corresponds to 2.6.24.7, so if it works you should be able to install linux-source-2.6.24², patch that source with the realtime patches, and then use make-kpkg in the kernel-pa

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-13 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Matthew Smith (m...@smiffytech.com) [13.03.09 23:47]: > Quoth green at 2009-03-14 03:28... > > If the stock Debian kernel works, have you tried using that config for your > > kernel? > This is something that I have avoided as I have read in various places > that there are often incompatible cha

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-13 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-14 03:28... If the stock Debian kernel works, have you tried using that config for your kernel? This is something that I have avoided as I have read in various places that there are often incompatible changes between minor versions (like from 2.6.18 to 2.6.24). This also

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-13 Thread Matthew Smith
Hi Mike Out of curiosity, how do your lockups manifest themselves? Do you get a flashing CAPS-LOCK light, perchance? What you are seeing is a kernel panic. If you want to debug that, Google for "magic sysrq" - it should get you on the right track. (It's a kernel configuration option that

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-13 Thread green
Matthew Smith wrote at 2009-03-13 03:19 -0600: > All has gone well so far, but I am experiencing issues trying to boot > the external disc with anything but the Debian stock kernel. Here are > the facts: > > * I am booting from Grub on the internal disc. > > * With the Debian kernel, the external d

Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-13 Thread Matthew Smith
[Apologies for this re-post - not normally my way; however, I wanted to be sure that this was a case of nobody being able to/wanting to answer this rather than having sent at a bad time and having it slip under the radar.] Hi Just to give a little background, after 3 years of running Gentoo (

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage

2009-03-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Matthew Smith wrote: > Hi > > Just to give a little background, after 3 years of running Gentoo (and > SuSE previously,) I have given up due to the impossible maintenance > burden and am migrating back to a binary distribution. Having sworn off > RPMs for life, I have chosen Debian as the most m

Kernel issues: booting from USB storage

2009-03-10 Thread Matthew Smith
Hi Just to give a little background, after 3 years of running Gentoo (and SuSE previously,) I have given up due to the impossible maintenance burden and am migrating back to a binary distribution. Having sworn off RPMs for life, I have chosen Debian as the most mature and mainstream distro.

Etch: Stock kernel issues with ATI SB600 SATA controller and 2xSamsung HD403LJ ?

2008-03-02 Thread H. Meyer
Hi, I just ran into some troubles with the IO system of a new server running Debian Etch (2.6.18-6-vserver-amd64 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1)) and was wondering whether these might be related to some SB600 patches which might not yet be part of the Debian kernel. The problem occurs with both di

Re: RE : Re: Kernel issues due to identical network cards

2008-01-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:11:41PM +0100, David MAGNY wrote: > --- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a ?crit > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:06:31PM +0100, David > > MAGNY wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am upgrading a firewall from Sarge to Etch. > > > > > > On this machine, I have 3 netwo

RE : Re: Kernel issues due to identical network cards

2008-01-05 Thread David MAGNY
--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:06:31PM +0100, David > MAGNY wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am upgrading a firewall from Sarge to Etch. > > > > On this machine, I have 3 network cards. > > > > 2 networks cards are identical. It is PCI network > >

Re: Kernel issues due to identical network cards

2008-01-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:06:31PM +0100, David MAGNY wrote: > Hello, > > I am upgrading a firewall from Sarge to Etch. > > On this machine, I have 3 network cards. > > 2 networks cards are identical. It is PCI network > cards and it is SMC1233A-TX. > > On Sarge, everything worked well. > > Th

Re: Kernel issues due to identical network cards

2008-01-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:06:31PM +0100, David MAGNY wrote: > Hello, > > I am upgrading a firewall from Sarge to Etch. > > On this machine, I have 3 network cards. > > 2 networks cards are identical. It is PCI network > cards and it is SMC1233A-TX. > > On Sarge, everything worked well. > > Th

Kernel issues due to identical network cards

2008-01-04 Thread David MAGNY
Hello, I am upgrading a firewall from Sarge to Etch. On this machine, I have 3 network cards. 2 networks cards are identical. It is PCI network cards and it is SMC1233A-TX. On Sarge, everything worked well. The issue is that only one card of both is available. The used kernel is 2.6.18. With

Re: Kernel issues

2004-01-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:25:56PM +, Matthew Bates wrote: > I currently have an install of Woody 3.0r1 with the "2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr > 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux" kernel. > > I have been following the Debian security announcements and I am aware of > the kernel security vulnerab

Kernel issues

2004-01-11 Thread Matthew Bates
I currently have an install of Woody 3.0r1 with the "2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux" kernel. I have been following the Debian security announcements and I am aware of the kernel security vulnerabilities. I would therefore like to upgrade as soon as possible, really.

Re: Lilo and Kernel issues Help Please

2002-08-31 Thread Russell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi: > > I almost hosed my booting capabilities Maybe you could get a more useful rescue disk from the bottom of this page: http://www.linuxlots.com/~fawcett/Bootdisk-HOWTO/ If you know someone with a linux system, maybe you could plug your HDD onto a spare ID

Lilo and Kernel issues Help Please

2002-08-31 Thread fbrian
Hi: I almost hosed my booting capabilities. I can boot the rescue kernel 2.2.20-compact from the harddrive. Unable to make a boot floppy that works though, error durring boot from floppy... kernel panic does not know where init is. For some reason, I had to install lilo on the /boot partition an