linux does not start
Vedant <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:50:50 +0530
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel.driver-loader |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
its a very big problem here... to make it consice, i deleted my ndiswrapper hardware(wlan0) from system-config-network after uninstalling ndiswrapper. then i proceeded to install driverloader and entered the license key. kernel paniced. then i rebooted my computer, and linux does not start after setting up hostname. this wireless network of mine has always giving me problems. (WRT54G still restarts several times in a day). now the full detail... i wanted to do some java programming on linux, so i installed fedora core 4 and it worked fine, everything. then came the issue of wireless networking. i saw that ndiswrapper was free and installed it. then i installed networkmanager to ease the setting up of networks. it worked fine (at that time the wireless had no security) after a few weeks, i saw that network was running fine, so i decided to increase the security and did wpa2 protection on the wireless. this ran me into problems with linux. first i could not see what the problem was, (wpa_supplicant just ignored my wireless network - no wpa/rsn ie skip) so i decided to go with driverloader. i didn't remove the wlan0 interface completely while installing driverloader as i thought that if driverloader didn't work, i can easily reinstall ndiswrapper. at the time i had installed ndiswrapper, the following were there on my machine: * wlan0 interface w/o ndiswrapper (the boot process gave the followig message while starting up: (device or driver) ndiswrapper not found. delaying initialisation. * wireless_tools * wpa_supplicant * networkmanager when i configured everything but license key, everything was going fine. when i entered the license key, the kernel paniced. retries did not help in preventing the panic. so i installed the 16K stack kernel. still the same problem. today, i removed the wlan0 device to see if it solved the problem, but it increased the problem more! now i cannot boot up linux!!! please help. -- There are 10 types of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't. Vedant Lath