Re: Fedora Core V2 Upgrade Woes

Hi,

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Mark Sansome wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have been, for many months now, happily running Fedora Core V.1
> with 2.4.x Kernel using the at76c503-0.11 driver with my Belkin F5d6050
> USB Wireless connector.
>
> In a rash moment I decided to upgrade to Fedora Core v.2 which includes
> Kernel 2.6.5-1.358. I had hoped that the upgrade would simply leave the
> drivers intact.
>
> Unfortunately no such luck - recompiling the at76c503-0.11 driver didn't
> work either, so I started digging around and, with the help of a friend
> got a version of at76c503a-0.12beta12.tar.gz (without Internet access I
> couldn't obtain the latest cvs version).
>
> This compiles with a few warnings (I can attach the output if it helps),
> dmesg shows the driver loaded, but unfortunately it hangs my system
> (usually at the "probing for new hardware" stage) when I re-boot. It
> completely freezes with no possibility (that I could find) for an
> elegant exit - Big Red Button job!
>
> From there the only way to get the system working again is to go in
> via "Linux Rescue" and uninstall the at76c503.
>
> Can anyone get me round this problem. A Linux system without
> Internet access is not terribly useful...

If the USB-device is attached during boot, please boot without and attach
it later while watching syslog on the console (check /etc/syslog.conf).
This may give more hints.
I don't have Fedora v2 here nor its kernel version but can use the driver
with kernel 2.6.6.

/Jörg