From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S5HYS-0007qu-PR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:09:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F10CE06E7; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:09:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF024E06EC for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:08:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wico1 with SMTP id o1so3282836wic.40 for ; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:08:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=1vd/HlczG9ysPfNPDg2HeTxPEZw0Xhxzy1Rb4erzyXc=; b=KroWzn3nq50r1apB4EHFNH+umc+iB7qbFDx04gBqGpO6TxFeVI+x1JEhedK0ymfOas 9TpRMqL36UW25q3dvIRzwB28mB7y500D49DGYQZ73DHByq66O6Gg9mcBDSo0A+t6TRVv Uxf6fE8F9wY6J+Ht64+CqyJK5/i98GtnLI2ORg35HKOIZYFmlHC+dSMzdjgs2U08NCkC HwpABUGvq8mvC4wK+pKiPlC66BJblM9B+c0SJ2JqVSVbePyPqv2fXoKwdlmZhs34+Ezv c36S7bXy6azurVyNAphuwMEj8gE9jHO04cdPAQIOpXCvcY5XCzfpLyHrP3thUpAA8zl+ AdoA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.102.129 with SMTP id fo1mr4175762wib.6.1331129302021; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:08:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.2.194 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 06:08:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1331028495.4662.0@numa-i> References: <1331028495.4662.0@numa-i> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 06:08:21 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] two NICs -> kernel crash ? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 1db8ca2c-38f5-4efe-92f6-2fa324240d9f X-Archives-Hash: e2f547499a840216dc87e1217727d49e On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > on my HP625 I run a bleeding edge Gentoo (kernel 3.3-rc6). > > If the notebook is connected by an ethernet cable, the net comes up just > fine. > > If I disconnect it from ethernet and start net.wlan0, the WLAN comes up just > fine. > > BUT, if it's connect to ethernet, and net.eth0 has been started, the kernel > crashes badly (i.e. no SysRq anymore) if I start net.wlan0 in addition. > > Is this a configuration error by me or a kernel bug. > The WLAN card is a Broadcom BCM4313 with the BRCMSMAC driver. > > Many thanks for your help, > Helmut. > 1) Do you need such a leading edge kernel to support your hardware, etc.? If not consider droping back to something more stable. 2) As you are Broadcom based there have been some networking regressions reported on LKML about Broadcom NICs. Consider reporting this on LKML. It's likely a configuration they haven't tested. Good luck, Mark