Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...> writes: > > On 08/01/2011 06:10 PM, Jaroslaw Fedewicz wrote: > > > > I'm using a fairly recent version of kernel from git (I think from > > before yesterday). The mysterious hangs were there from the beginning, > > but it also might be partly because ATI driver was messed up too at > > these times. Later, ati appeared fixed but the hangs wouldn't go away. > > If that git tree is linux-2.6, or its new name, from Linus, then you have the > latest source. > > > I don't think it's a panic proper, though. Nothing ever gets logged > > along the lines of "panic". Even if I happen to have a text mode > > console, it just freezes. If I have a panic or an oops proper, I'm > > also kicked out of X11 to see it by the KMS. But not in this case. > > > > (Also, the laptop has neither Caps Lock nor Num Lock nor Scroll Lock > > LEDs, so I can't see if they blink.) > > A kernel panic never logs anything to the disk. The only place you will see it > is on the logging console, or in netconsole output. > > > What raised my suspicions is that I've never seen this happen when > > rtl8192se wasn't compiled at all or was not loaded. > > > > The most problematic thing is that it does not hang right away. Most > > of the time, I see the machine go into the catatonia after quite a > > while, and as it is not the laptop I do most of my work on, I usually > > see it hanged when screen PM has already kicked in. So I cannot really > > read what the log might say on the matter. > > > > I cannot also trigger the freeze reliably. Most of the time it happens > > "when you are not looking at it", and it usually happens either during > > or just after high load averages and low to none network activity (a > > typical scenario: build a firefox from sources, go outside, come home > > 4 hours later, the laptop is turned on but dead by hanging; no > > messages as the screen is obviously off; a less typical scenario is to > > freeze during startup). > > > > I'm the last person ever to suggest anything on the subject, but could > > it be a problem in the card's power management? > > Not likely. I have three different cards with differing configurations that I > have run for extended periods without seeing your problem. One of them is the > same as yours. > > Until you get some kind of dump from the system, I'm not sure what can be done. > > Larry > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@... > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Hi, Did you ever find any solution to this issue? Because I got very similar problems with my laptop, which is the same as Fedewicz'. Although the issues started to appear after I upgraded from kernel 2.6.something to kernel 3.0.4-1. Before that I only had issues causing the laptop to freeze after resuming form suspend or hibernation, if the rtl8192se module wasn't unloaded before issuing pm-suspend. I might add that the freezes have just occurred when I'm on my school's network, using WPA2 with PEAP and MSCHAPv2. I have yet to see it freeze when connected to a unsecured network, but that might just be an coincidence. I don't know if I'm able to get any dumps. And I can't try to do a magic sysrq either, as the laptop is missing the SysRq-key... Regards, Edwin -- 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
