Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ham (15 mails)

["Henk de Groot" <henk.de.groot@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Don,

Thanks for thinking with me, but if it was that simple I would not have
bothered the list. I have been running AX.25 trough the kernel for about 3
years now, with an 2.0.36 kernel, so this is not a problem (I am even the
author of the HAM packages on the SuSE CD).

Anyway, even if I made a complete mess of it, it should never ever freeze
the machine (unless wrong IO adresses and interrupts were configured which
is not the case). I suspect that the AX.25 stuff for the 2.4 kernel is not
okay yet. I applied the patch to the YAM modem module by OK1ZIA to get rid
of the "kfree_skb on hard IRQ" and the "Bad boy" kernel messages. It did not
solve the problem.

I noted that it is not an FBB problem. I have some home-made tools to do
reverse forwarding to fetch bulletins. These run for a while but eventually
also hangs the system. It seems to occur upon closing the connection or
closing the socket, at least I saw it 3 times lockup exactly at that point.

Thanks to a suggestion by Jean-Paul ROUBELAT (F6FBB) I tried the 2.2.19
kernel packaged with SuSE (I did not realize one was there, I already
started thinking about downgrading). This seems to run just fine. Both FBB
and my home-made tool stays up. So at least this is a bypass for now and
also its pritty sure this is a kernel problem and not something else.

I just compiled the latest kernel 2.4.15-pre6 from www.kernel.org (first
tried 2.4.14 but the loop device did not compile, so I patched it with the
latest patch). This is a bleeding edge kernel now. I'm still fighting with
it as the new kernel cannot find the reiserfs module at bootup (yes, it is
there, but maybe in the wrong place...). Anyway, no results from that yet
(changes to the AX.25 parts compared to SuSE's kernel are minimal, so I
don't expect much).

Kind regards,

Henk.

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: Don Hawkins - W7DAH
Aan: Henk de Groot ; suse-ham-e@xxxxxxxx
Verzonden: zondag 18 november 2001 16:36
Onderwerp: Re: [suse-ham-e] SuSE 7.3 System crash with FBB


Henk,

Have you visited this resource:
<http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/howtos/AX25/AX25-HOWTO.html>
(Only thing I can offer just now, sorry)?