<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Timothy Murphy ha scritto: <blockquote cite="midf4m27f$hrd$1@sea.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thanks very much for your response. I've a feeling my problems lie with the new disk driver setup, using pata/scsi . I'm not sure what one should include in the kernel .config for this. </pre> </blockquote> I dont understand, disk driver setup of what ?? orinoco (if i remember) is a wifi device, the readme of svn tell: <pre>Orinoco, Spectrum24 Trilogy and Prism 2/2.5/3 wireless card driver ================================================================== This document is concerned only with the issues specific to the standalone distribution of the Orinoco driver. For documentation about the driver itself and about the project, see README.orinoco. </pre> Now you tell of pata/scsi, but what is it ??? <blockquote cite="midf4m27f$hrd$1@sea.gmane.org" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">There is a problem running the orinoco_usb driver module with the distribution kernel. (The kernel usually crashes when WiFi is started.) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">What type of crash ?? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> It is a kernel panic, with a display of register contents, etc. Unfortunately this flashes by too fast to take down. </pre> </blockquote> You make a debug of your system ?? Orinoco supported a various wlan hw profiles (lucent, Intersil, spectrum), what is your?? Make a lspci -vvv and see if you hw is correctly recognized Check dmesg and boot log and ability the kernel msg in a log file. To ability the kernel msg modify this entry in /etc/syslog.conf from : # Logging much else clutters up the screen. #kern.* /dev/console to: # Logging much else clutters up the screen. kern.* /var/log/syslog what type of computer use ?? notebook ?? what is your profile ?? I suppose you use a fc7, but i386 or X64 ? Chek this bugzilla: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97196">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97196</a> <blockquote cite="midf4m27f$hrd$1@sea.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thanks for the pointer. I hadn't seen that. Unfortunately, though, the author of the orinoco_usb comments says that he ceased to run orinoco_usb in December 2006. The version of orinoco_usb in use then (which I was using) ceased to work with kernels later than 2.6.19 - and these older kernels ceased to work, on this machine at least, with Fedora-7. The orinoco_usb source is somewhat separate from the main orinoco_cs source, and is not included with the kernel sources. It is very much a one-man operation by Pavel Roskin, I think. </pre> </blockquote> You see a webpage of the official wireless Lan Drivers for the kernel three ?? (in every .c source kernel you can read a information of the maintainer and the official webpages) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/">http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/</a> and the orinoco page <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html">http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html</a> and the orinoco page usb <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html#OrinocoUSB">http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html#OrinocoUSB</a> <blockquote cite="midf4m27f$hrd$1@sea.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">When the computer says: Welcome to Fedora Press 'I' to enter interactive startup As I said, there is a very long (possibly infinitely long) pause at this point - I think I woke the machine by typing 'I' followed by more or less random characters. But what exactly is the kernel doing at this point? </pre> </blockquote> Its a long answer, more of the kernel is the OS that startup the relative services/daemon. The kernel is linked at the relative service and modules. <blockquote cite="midf4m27f$hrd$1@sea.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> Bye Giancarlo <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Giancarlo del Rossi System Administrator EnterMED s.r.l - Via liberta' 56 - 90143 Palermo +39917303009 - +3991305023 - +3497609610 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.entermed.it">http://www.entermed.it</a> - <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gdelrossi@entermed.it">gdelrossi@entermed.it</a> -- Se proprio dovete mandarmi file .doc, convertiteli in rtf, grazie -- -- Ennyn Durin Aran Moria: pedo mellon a minno -- </pre> </body> </html>