RE: Fedora Core V2 Upgrade Woes

If the device is not attached during boot, when you plug it in after FC2 is
booted everything appears to works fine. Checking the console you get the
normal initialization, including the MAC. But as soon as you try to use
anything with wireless extensions, it causes a kernel panic.

Unfortunately, I had to back rev to Fedora Core 1, because I didn't have
time to sort it out.

I used Linksys WUSB11 v2.8

Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Joerg Albert
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 4:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [at76c503a-user] 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
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