Debugging Assistance(KUDZU)

[Marshall D. Lewis]

If you let kudzu sit long enough it will continue.. but expect
performance to go to hell.  I believe someone said it has something to
do with the 2.6.4-1.305 kernel & usb.  ...of course prior to upgrading
the kernel kudzu would cause a kernel panic for me .. so go figure.

You can get the mouse working without the slowdown issues by doing:

modprobe uhci

don't load the ehci or ohci(?) modules ... just out of curiosity, let me
know if nautilus segfaults on you now : )   it does for me

--
 Marshall

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 01:44, sean bruno wrote:
> I just installed (and patched!) Fedora Core 2 Test 2...Quite a bit of
> hassle to get it in, but not bad for Beta...
> 
> Anyway, they are running a 2.6.4 kernel variant(as always "enhanced" by
> RedHat).
> 
> I can compile and build the driver objects with the following steps:
> 
> 1.  Install Kernel Source RPM
> 2.  Copy /usr/src/linux-2.6.4-1.305/configs/kernel-2.6.4-i686.config
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.4-1.305/.config
> 3.  CVS checkout madwifi drivers.
> 4.  Build madwifi drivers with "sudo make"  Something needed that root
> can only access.
> 5   Install the madwifi drivers with "sudo make install"
> 
> Now is where the fun begins...Fedora Core 1 worked great at this point
> with the 2.4 kernel that they are using.
> 
> I reboot after step 5 and it appears that "kudzu" spins out of control
> and never finishes...I need kudzu for some reason, because my USB mouse
> never works without it running at startup.
> 
> The machine doesn't lock up, but it does not progress any further that
> the "detecting new hardware" stage of the RedHat boot process.
> 
> I did not configure the /etc/modprobe.conf to alias ath0 the first time.
> 
> After rebooting and selecting "I" for interactive startup, I skipped
> kudzu and allowed the system to boot normally.
> 
> The madwifi drivers come up and negotiate to the WAP just fine.  However
> my USB mouse doesn't work without kudzu running(sheesh!).
> 
> So, I CTRL-ALT-F1 when the system is at the login screen, login as root
> and run kudzu manually.
> 
> The system initializes the USB system(BTW no USB devices are detected at
> all without the startup of kudzu) and my mouse starts working.
> 
> Kudzu runs...very slowly and intermittently...and it detects the Atheros
> Chipset based 802.11g card.  Since I have already configured it, I have
> skipped it for now.
> 
> This is a two-list post...Looking for a bit of help here...
> 
> 
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