2.6.25 enters [testing]

Aitch · 2008-04-22 17:26:09

Not sure if this is relevant but... After I updated to 2.6.25 my laptop stopped logging in to my wireless network during boot. I get the message "Wireless association failed".

If I take the connection down with "netcfg2 -a" then up again using the same profile as in rc.config it works again. There were a lot of updates at the same time so it may be unrelated to the kernel, in which case I apologise and promise to pay more attention in future.

I'm running x86_64 with the iwl4965 wireless driver.

zyghom · 2008-04-22 17:48:01

no problems with iwl4965 at all on my side

cat /etc/network.d/dom:

CONNECTION="wireless"
DESCRIPTION=" WLAN dom "
INTERFACE=wlan0
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wpa-config"
ESSID="myessid"
IP="dhcp"
TIMEOUT=5
WPA_OPTS="-Dwext"
WPA_CONF="/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"
PRE_UP="/etc/rc.d/firestarter stop; ifconfig eth0 down"
POST_UP="/scripts/linux/fw/firestarter/fw-wlan.sh; ifconfig wlan0 | grep Bcast ; /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh status"
POST_DOWN="ifconfig $INTERFACE down"

Last edited by zyghom (2008-04-22 17:49:38)

Aitch · 2008-04-22 18:11:42

The only difference between my profile and zyghom's was that mine had SCAN set to "off". Changed that to "yes" and it's working again. Not sure what change impacted that, but thanks for help.

Ps. Forget to mention that the volume and mute buttons on my ThinkPad T61 are now working. Sleep on close too. It just keeps getting better and better

Last edited by Aitch (2008-04-22 19:21:50)

baze · 2008-04-22 19:01:08

no idea if this is caused by hal or the kernel, but with 2.6.25 my iwl3945 driven wireless network device won't come up when i boot with the kill switch on unless i unload and load the module again. when i boot with the switch off, i can disable and enable the device as expected and as before.
the device is shown with iwconfig, but when i boot with the switch on so that the device is disabled and then enable the device while the system is running, i still can't scan. iwlist wlan0 scan tells me the device is down.

Harey · 2008-04-22 19:55:41

Same here for me. 2.6.25 seems to have broken a formerly working installation with iwl4965 and wicd as the network manager. The last thing not working on this system with 2.6.24 was switching bluetooth and WLAN LEDs on and off. This was why I tried the kernel in first case...
Even worse, when I try to start the wlan hardware (the system leaves it off during boot) using the knob on the front of my acer 9920G laptop (which worked in 2.6.24) the system freezes completely after a short period. VMWare workstation 6.0.3 does not compile its modules anymore, beta of VMWare 6.5 will compile after a small patch of Makefile.kernel in the VBlock.tar. Tell me if I can provide more information.

Harvey

Edit: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ … 5-git3.log seems to be full of corrections for iwl 4965. Looks like this is still in flow...

Another Edit: I tried http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/compat-wireless/
Although I was not sure if it adresses my Problem and it works! YAY! The system freeze is gone and even the LED of the WLAN-Module works now! Now I only have to get my bluetooth module working.

Last edited by Harey (2008-04-23 12:57:10)

plangin · 2008-04-23 18:49:12

Hi folks,

unfortunately the new kernel is useless for me: My custom DSDT file does not get loaded. Support for this was removed with 2.6.25. This situation is already filed in the bug tracker:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10261

Personally I can't work without a custom DSDT because of the buggy one in the BIOS of my laptop (HP Compaq 6715s). With the original DSDT the SATA harddrive works _very_ slowly and the system stops randomly with a black screen. The only solution at the moment is to compile an own kernel with an integrated DSDT.

BTW: Do Arch developers use the vanilla sources? I couldn't find any kernel source packages in the repositories and I'm curious how to make a kernel myself the most elegant way.

Cheers
plangin

rson451 · 2008-04-23 18:58:22

plangin: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cus … n_with_ABS

brain0 · 2008-04-23 19:00:12

plangin wrote:

Hi folks,
unfortunately the new kernel is useless for me: My custom DSDT file does not get loaded. Support for this was removed with 2.6.25.

Support for custom DSDT was not removed, the patch has been updated to a newer version for 2.6.25 and the necessary options are enabled. I can not tell why the dsdt wouldn't load for you. If anything, you could check the dmesg output and see what it says.

Aitch · 2008-04-23 19:57:42

I am still having problems getting wireless to load at boot, but I've decided it's down to an update in netcfg ver2 not the kernel.

Thanks for the link though Harey. Now I have the wireless led working too (a first).

plangin · 2008-04-23 20:06:18

@ rson451: Thanks! Will digg into it...

brain0 wrote:

Support for custom DSDT was not removed...

Ahh.... My fault.

I can not tell why the dsdt wouldn't load for you. If anything, you could check the dmesg output and see what it says.

I compared dmesg of both versions and here is the relevant difference.

2.6.25 says only:

ACPI: Checking initramfs for custom DSDT

2.6.24 said:

ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... successfully read 66906 bytes from /DSDT.aml.
ACPI: Table DSDT replaced by host OS
ACPI: DSDT 00000000, 1055A (r1 HP        SB400    10000 INTL 20061109)
ACPI: DSDT override uses original SSDTs unless "acpi_no_auto_ssdt"

I also tried to regenerate the initramfs image. /lib/initcpio/custom.dsdt is present and dsdt in the Hooks field. But still no success....

Bestiapeluda · 2008-04-23 20:59:06

So... after 2 kernels, does anyone have any complaints against the CFS scheduler ?
I still have to tweak the schedulers granularity so games like Wow run under Wine without
stuttering

I hoped that with the new kernel I wouldn't need to recompile...

brain0 · 2008-04-24 05:44:59

There is an updated version of the DSDT-initrd patch, I'll include that in the 2.6.25-2-ARCH kernel, let's see if the problem is fixed then.

hcjl · 2008-04-24 10:11:29

hi all,

does anyone have a feeling, when 2.6.25 will enter core?

thx & rgds
hcjl

Misfit138 · 2008-04-24 12:08:31

2.6.25 will enter core when devs signoff on it. The developer mailing list should be a good indicator.

glad · 2008-04-24 18:35:33

My Nvidia driver stopped working with this new kernel, I've installed the Nvidia drivers from nvidia.com as always, but after a succesfylly install of the drivers and I try to startx it freezes showing the Nvidia logo.

And the reccomended nvndia driver don't compille, had to use the beta which is the one who crash..

brain0 · 2008-04-24 22:06:51

I said this way too often: Using the nvidia installer will sonner or later screw up your system. I've seen this many times and I won't help you fix it when it does. We provide packages of the latest (non-beta) nvidia driver in our repositories, which works with 2.6.25 just fine.

I don't see what point you want to make by reporting that a non-packaged (thus unclean) installation of the nvidia BETA driver freezes your system. This thread is about the kernel package in testing and the related kernel module packages, it is not about you screwing up your system.

glad · 2008-04-25 05:41:06

I know, but the pacman package has never been working for me, and thats my reason for using the Nvidia package, but okey, I'l try deleting every file installed by the Nvidia installer, but I don't think it will work anyway.

zyghom · 2008-04-25 05:59:51

glad wrote:

I know, but the pacman package has never been working for me, and thats my reason for using the Nvidia package, but okey, I'l try deleting every file installed by the Nvidia installer, but I don't think it will work anyway.

use yaourt:

yaourt -SS nvidia - to search for
yaourt -S nvidia-beta nvidia-utils-beta

09:00:15 papio@baboon:~$ yaourt -Ss nvidia-utils-beta
aur/nvidia-utils-beta 173.08-2 [installed]
    NVIDIA beta drivers utilities and libraries.
09:00:20 papio@baboon:~$ 
09:00:20 papio@baboon:~$ yaourt -Ss nvidia-beta
aur/nvidia-beta 173.08-2 [installed]
    NVIDIA beta drivers for kernel26.
aur/nvidia-beta-zen 171.05-1
    NVIDIA beta drivers for kernel26zen
09:00:55 papio@baboon:~$

on mine it looks:

08:59:04 papio@baboon:~$ yaourt -Qs nvidia
local/nvidia-beta 173.08-2
   NVIDIA beta drivers for kernel26.
local/nvidia-utils-beta 173.08-2
   NVIDIA beta drivers utilities and libraries.
08:59:15 papio@baboon:~$

Last edited by zyghom (2008-04-25 06:01:55)

glad · 2008-04-25 06:06:46

I will give it a try when i get home from school, i never used Yaourt before, its like a wrapper for pacman or am I mistaken?

zyghom · 2008-04-25 06:35:17

glad wrote:

I will give it a try when i get home from school, i never used Yaourt before, its like a wrapper for pacman or am I mistaken?

don't forget to add in /etc/pacman.conf this line:

[archlinuxfr] 
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686

wantilles · 2008-04-25 08:10:21

glad wrote:

I know, but the pacman package has never been working for me...

The pacman package has ALWAYS been working.

You just do not know how to use it correctly.

buddabrod · 2008-04-25 10:39:16

wantilles wrote:

glad wrote:
I know, but the pacman package has never been working for me...
The pacman package has ALWAYS been working.
You just do not know how to use it correctly.

Same here. It just works fine, getting the PKGBUILD from abs and changing version is sufficient if one cant live without the beta driver (like me). And it works here without crashes.
I dont like the thing from AUR, the maintainer answers questions really slowly and doest change anything in his PKGBUILD.

wantilles · 2008-04-26 16:37:06

In order to test the new 2.6.25 kernel, do we need any other package from testing?

Architecture is x86_64.

PS: Perhaps we need aufs from testing.

Last edited by wantilles (2008-04-26 19:32:15)

praka123 · 2008-04-26 19:02:50

heard there is some BSOD equivalent feature for Linux in 2.6.25 ?

sash · 2008-04-27 15:18:31

dw wrote:

sash wrote:
Everything works as expected, except mythtv--the backend log reports a socket error, and mythbackend either crashes or refuses to start.
i cannot confirm this. myth runs fine here ...

Are you running the backend with the 2.6.25 kernel as well? If so, what kind of hardware (I use bttv cards)?
Mythfrontend runs fine on a laptop with the 2.6.25 package, however, the server machine cannot start mythbackend. Reverted to 2.6.24 and it works again...

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