Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (194 mails)

[Valur Olafsson <volafsso@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

Before going into the problem at hand let me say that my desktop computer was 
working as it should running SUSE 9.2, which was installed on the machine 
before I upgraded to SUSE 9.3.

Now to the problem.  As the title indicates I have been experiencing lockups 
after upgrading my AMD64 desktop machine to 64-bit SUSE 9.3.  This all 
started when I wanted to configure my USB Linksys wireless card (WUSB11 v2.8) 
on my desktop.  I needed to configure it to access the internet.  So, like I 
did when I installed SUSE 9.2 in the past, I installed the wireless-tools and 
atmel-firmware rpms, and plugged the WUSB11 into a USB port on my desktop.  
Using 'dmesg' I saw that the atmel firmware got uploaded to the WUSB11.  So 
the system recognized the WUSB11 as it had done when I was running 9.2.  Then 
I went into the network module in Yast2 and setup the wireless connection.  
After that I needed to unplug and plug the WUSB11 to get it to start to 
connect to my router, but as it was about the get an IP from my router the 
computer froze.

At first I did not know what the problem was, so I tried to install different 
versions of the atmel-firmware rpm, both the one that came with 9.2 (and had 
worked previously) and the most recent one from the homepage of the 
atmel-firmware project.  Still the computer froze when the WUSB11 was about 
to get an IP from my router.  Next I thought that maybe the dhcp client on 
SUSE 9.3 was to blame so I hardwired a particular IP to WUSB11 when setting 
up the connection in the network module in Yast2 to bypass it.  This did the 
trick, I was finally able to get online, without the machine locking up.  
This is currently the only way I know how to get the computer online using 
the WUSB11.

This however was to be a short victory, since about a half an hour after 
getting online for the first time, while surfing the net, the computer locked 
up again.  This time, I was not doing anything specific, just browsing the 
web through the wireless connection.  I thought that maybe this was a one off 
thing, but this has happened multiple times after that incident.

As I said in the first paragraph, everything was working well when running 
SUSE 9.2 on the same hardware and using the same WUSB11 device to access the 
internet.  Also, the machine is a dual boot machine, and everything is 
working fine in windows.

So what would be my next steps in debugging this problem.  Currently, I have 
no idea what is causing the lockups, or why even the dhcp should be causing 
lockups when I'm not bypassing that by hardwiring the IP.  Any suggestions to 
logs or something of that sort that I should be looking at are welcome, 
'cause I sure as hell don't know what should be my next steps.

Regards,
Valur Olafsson