Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932145AbWJFJnv (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 05:43:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932147AbWJFJnv (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 05:43:51 -0400 Received: from atlas.informatik.uni-freiburg.de ([132.230.150.3]:19633 "EHLO atlas.informatik.uni-freiburg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932145AbWJFJnu (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 05:43:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:43:48 +0200 From: Uwe Zeisberger To: Witold W?adys?aw Wojciech Wilk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: how to get the kernel to be more "verbose"? Message-ID: <20061006094348.GB11065@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Mail-Followup-To: Uwe Zeisberger , Witold W?adys?aw Wojciech Wilk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <98975a8b0610052234p3287ab8fr70335f858ba4583b@mail.gmail.com> <20061006073303.GA5105@cepheus.pub> <98975a8b0610060038t4d5dbd14ja348ce78351a93e3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <98975a8b0610060038t4d5dbd14ja348ce78351a93e3@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Organization: Universitaet Freiburg, Institut f. Informatik Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1744 Lines: 44 Hi Witold, (I readded linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org to the Cc:.) Witold W?adys?aw Wojciech Wilk wrote: > 2006/10/6, Uwe Zeisberger : > >Witold W?adys?aw Wojciech Wilk wrote: > >> I've tried using the /proc/config.gz provided by the default kernel, > >> but to no avail. > >Does this mean, you cannot find the config because /proc/config.gz > >doesn't exist? Then try /boot/config-2.6.8. Maybe I misunderstood you? > > No, I've used the config I had in the 2.6.8 (in proc/config.gz), but > the SAME kernel 2.6.8 source compiled incorrectly. So I think this > might be some glitch on my machine... because it is im possible to > make a kernel that is always getting stuck in the same place. Did you notice that Debian kernels are not vanilla but patched? You can get the patches from http://packages.debian.org/ > >> Any help? Please point me at something, I am trying for two weeks > >> already, and I cannot find any problems like mine. Thanks a lot for > >> any help. > >You can try the "initcall_debug" kernel parameter to see which init > >functions are called. > > I will use that then. I am quite new to debugging the kernel... My > programming knowledge is still quite low ;) But I will try that today > after work... I will write more. I need to get the Wi-Fi working ASAP. Another thing that could help you is SysRQ, there is a request that prints out a stack dump. Best regards Uwe -- Uwe Zeisberger http://www.google.com/search?q=5+choose+3 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/