On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:57:45 +0000 > Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:37:25 +0530 >> Mohammed Shafi <shafi.ath9k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > >> > >> >> I haven't tried looking in logs because the crashes are so severe I >> > >> >> don't think they'd be able to record anything useful. >> > >> > Can you please get those messages with net console ? > > No, I can't get it to work. I found a good guide at > <http://www.novell.com/communities/node/4753/netconsole-howto-send-kernel-boot-messages-over-ethernet> > and adapted it for Debian but absolutely no messages appear. I connected > it via Ethernet to another netbook which runs Ubuntu. On the Debian one > (the one with the problem I want to debug) I added to > /etc/network/interfaces: > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 10.0.0.20 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > and on Ubuntu: > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 10.0.0.10 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > On the Debian one I added netconsole to > /etc/modules and created /etc/modprobe.d/netconsole.conf containing: > > options netconsole netconsole=4444@xxxxxxxxx/eth0,6666@xxxxxxxxx/00:1E:68:DD:DB:40 I used to give dmesg -n 8 along with the above command and I get all the messages in the remote laptop. > > On the Ubuntu one I ran: > > nc -l -u 6666 > > I've double-checked the addresses etc and verified that the link is up > and the netconsole module is loaded, but no messages appear. > Can you please try this once again with the above debug level and see if you get the crash log? Vivek. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
