I recently installed 11.1 and i continue to have kernel panics afte some minutes of use, i think this haas to be something with the Intel Wireless driver, because it happens most of the time when the wireless card is having some traffic.
Any ideas?
renerios wrote:
> I recently installed 11.1 and i continue to have kernel panics afte some
> minutes of use, i think this haas to be something with the Intel
> Wireless driver, because it happens most of the time when the wireless
> card is having some traffic.
> Any ideas?
When you say a kernel panic, do you mean that the caps lock light is blinking at
1 Hz? If so, you should use CTRL/ALT/F10 to switch to the logging console before
the crash occurs and wait. That is the only way to see the crash.
Intel has fixed a lot of problems with their drivers. The latest can be found in
the compat-wireless package.
Larry
Yes, that is what i call a kernel panic, i will try to do that and post the resulsts here
thanks.
I’m also getting kernel panics with an intel wireless card on 11.1. The problems have persisted though a kernel upgrade.
The really interesting thing about it is it works fine at home on my wireless network (which uses WPA-PSK) but always freezes (kernel panic) at work, when using the network there (open-access network, http only with html login form - do you know what I mean?).
I have booted up with the debug kernel and done what you suggested above, but to be honest I wasn’t able to follow what the output was telling me (except that it involved dereferencing a null pointer). Lots of text scrolled by before I could read it and when kdb started up I couldn’t find anything useful in the backtrace.
Next time I’ll try to photograph the output, so I an look at it more closely / post it here.
Also the machine seems to work fine on the network with a Kubuntu live DVD.
Hey its almost exactly what it happens to me, it only crashes on my school, on my house everything works fine, i cant get the debug to work because the panics are very random, and i can’t provoque them. But im also starting to think its maybe my mouse, crazy theories but there’s no patron about the panics
Yeah i found the source of the crashin its really the mouse, i don’t know why, the mouse starting to fail i have to click harder and harder but i think this distro doesn’t manage well recieving and error from a mouse.