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Re: iBook G3 stopped booting after last testing update



On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 10:29 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Die, 2013-01-15 at 22:33 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: 
> > Am Tuesday 15 January 2013 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> > > On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 19:47 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: 
> > > > 
> > > > After spending to much time figuring out what's going on, I have at
> > > > least a working system. The error is triggered when laptop-mode is
> > > > setting the auto negotiation attribute. So it may be a hardware error
> > > > after all. Because if I bring up the network manually (ifup -a) it
> > > > works.
> > > 
> > > It might still be a sungem driver bug, or the driver might at least be
> > > able to work around the hardware problem. Consider reporting a bug
> > > against the kernel, preferably upstream. 
> > 
> > Can you tell me how to do this or point me to a howto?
> 
> Actually, it looks like there is already a bug report for this,
> including a bisected commit introducing the problem:
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42992
> 
> 
> Ben, any ideas? 

Looks like it's accessing the chip as a result of an ioctl while the
chip is powered down. I'll have a look.

Ben.



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