Re: how to proceed with a driver problem
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:10:16PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> It appears that the ath5k wireless driver is crashing my system. It
> leaves almost no info in the logs when it does so (and thus has taken
> several weeks to find).
>
> Should I report that as a bug against the appropriate kernel image (the
> standard Lenny amd64), or take it directly upstream?
>
> Also, if anyone has any advice on how to proceed, even just how to get
> more info about the failures, would be great.
>
> The system is new hardware (2 CPU x 4 core each Xeon) running a fresh
> install of Lenny.
> Linux version 2.6.26-1-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-13)
> it does not (yet) have the latest security fixes.
> I'm not actually using the wireless--it doesn't have the password for
> the local network. I may need the wireless later.
>
> The system stayed up over a week with ath5k unloaded and blacklisted;
> before it was crashing c. daily. I just loaded the driver, and the
> system crashed about 20 hours later.
>
> I'd appreciate if you cc'd me on the response.
I'd suggest trying with the latest available trunk snapshot kernel
(see http://wiki.debian.org/) and, if its still causing a problem,
report upstream at bugzilla.kernel.org.
--
dann frazier
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