Subject: Re: kernel crash on startup
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de>
List: current-users
Date: 10/22/2006 15:55:31
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 03:39:13PM +0200, Sigmund Skjelnes wrote:
> Hi!
> To get a NetBSD install which is supporting my Gigabyte GN-WPKG wireless
> card, I'd have tried to install NetBSD several times, but have failed so
> far. The 3.0.1 version claims that it supports the card, but in fact it
> do not so: Ralink......not configured.
> 
> Current and the various 4beta installs get a kernel crash on startup,
> the last item on the startup screen is piixpcib0... and the next line is
> supervisor kernel trap...... and then the debugger prompt. Current have
> been built on the machine, so the code should fit the processor if it is
> correctly detected. Cannot find any core dump or something for the
> debugging, /var/log/messages show no trace of the event. 
> 
> Is there a possibility that this could be solved?

I too have problems with piixpcib (see PR #33907).  As an interim try to
build a kernel without piixpcib using a kernel config like:

	include "arch/i386/conf/GENERIC"
	no piixpcib* at pci?

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)