[NBLUG/talk] Debian loadable kernel modules

[Rob Orsini]

At 03:45 PM 10/21/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>>ME said:
>>You could post the weird dmesg errors if you have them. Corruption of
>>files (like config files) could possibly cause the problem you describe,
>>but is unlikely.
>
>I'll post all the info I gathered tonight.  I would be interesting to learn
>more about what happened.  Another strange casualty of the whole
>situation is that only one my wireless nics shows up in lspci now where as
>both would be there previously.  More details to come...

So, I found the file I saved off some output that may or may not offer a clue
as to what when down.  Unfortunately,  I didn't save off dmesg output except
for what I grepped for below.  I was going to include the output of lspci and
how it only showed one nic but they are both showing up now.  If I learn 
nothing
else from this, I will save more of forensic evidence in the future, CSI-style.

Thanks,
Rob


$ cat kern.log | grep eth1 | less

Oct 17 19:55:37 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Oct 17 19:55:38 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 17 19:58:37 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Oct 17 19:58:38 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 17 20:01:36 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Oct 17 20:01:38 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 17 20:04:36 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Oct 17 20:04:38 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 17 20:07:36 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Oct 17 20:07:37 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 17 20:10:36 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Oct 17 20:10:37 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 17 20:16:05 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Oct 17 20:16:07 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 18 09:09:38 p2120 kernel: eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0001:0004
Oct 18 09:09:38 p2120 kernel: eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 
1.4.1
Oct 18 09:09:38 p2120 kernel: eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
Oct 18 09:09:38 p2120 kernel: eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
Oct 18 09:09:38 p2120 kernel: eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
Oct 18 09:09:38 p2120 kernel: eth1: MAC address 00:E0:00:D1:85:82
Oct 18 09:09:38 p2120 kernel: eth1: Station name "Prism  I"
Oct 18 09:09:38 p2120 kernel: eth1: ready
Oct 18 09:10:57 p2120 kernel: eth1: Error -110 setting multicast list.
Oct 18 09:10:57 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 18 09:13:52 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Oct 18 09:13:54 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 18 09:37:51 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Oct 18 09:37:52 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 18 09:40:51 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Oct 18 09:40:52 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Oct 18 09:43:51 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Oct 18 09:43:52 p2120 kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)

$ dmesg | grep mod

evxfevnt-0093 [04] acpi_enable           : Transition to ACPI mode successful
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
WaveLAN init_module(): doing device probing (bad !)
Specify base addresses while loading module to correct the problem
WaveLAN init_module(): no device found
WaveLAN init_module(): doing device probing (bad !)
Specify base addresses while loading module to correct the problem
WaveLAN init_module(): no device found