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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 12:35:49 +0530
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Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35
From: Vivek Natarajan <vivek.natraj@gmail.com>
To: Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk>
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On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:57:45 +0000
> Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:37:25 +0530
>> Mohammed Shafi <shafi.ath9k@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> >> I haven't tried looking in logs because the crashes are so severe I
>> > >> >> don't think they'd be able to record anything useful.
>> >
>> > Can you please get those messages with net console ?
>
> No, I can't get it to work. I found a good guide at
> <http://www.novell.com/communities/node/4753/netconsole-howto-send-kernel-boot-messages-over-ethernet>
> and adapted it for Debian but absolutely no messages appear. I connected
> it via Ethernet to another netbook which runs Ubuntu. On the Debian one
> (the one with the problem I want to debug) I added to
> /etc/network/interfaces:
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> ? ?address 10.0.0.20
> ? ?netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> and on Ubuntu:
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> ? ?address 10.0.0.10
> ? ?netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> On the Debian one I added netconsole to
> /etc/modules and created /etc/modprobe.d/netconsole.conf containing:
>
> options netconsole netconsole=4444@10.0.0.20/eth0,6666@10.0.0.10/00:1E:68:DD:DB:40

I used to give
 dmesg -n 8
along  with the above command and I get all the messages in the remote laptop.

>
> On the Ubuntu one I ran:
>
> nc -l -u 6666
>
> I've double-checked the addresses etc and verified that the link is up
> and the netconsole module is loaded, but no messages appear.
>

Can you please try this once again with the above debug level and see
if you get the crash log?

Vivek.