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 1S55GZ-0006a5-A8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:02:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE0ACE0CD7; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 01:01:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 796CAE0CD7 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 01:00:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D021B4018 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 01:00:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.217 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.217 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.207, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9iU1y2peTHhm for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 01:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2FE9F1B400A for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 01:00:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S55FD-0007NF-FB for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:00:43 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-192-124.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.192.124]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:00:43 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-192-124.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:00:43 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: two NICs -> kernel crash ? Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:00:34 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1331028495.4662.0@numa-i> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-192-124.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 In-Reply-To: <1331028495.4662.0@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: 01ccc3d6-e308-45cb-a462-1b02b5750f10 X-Archives-Hash: 881254425bc5b90cb8ef5e6ec4969ac1 On 03/06/2012 02:08 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. Well, this is just my non-expert opinion, but I feel that any knob that can be twiddled by a user should never crash the kernel, ever. However, the kernel devs might agree with my wife about my opinions ;) Do kernels from the stable branch also crash?