8.10 Alpha 6, Asus Eee 701, kernel panic, atl2

[Asmo Koskinen]

Without updating initramfs for atl2 network driver Asus Eee 701 4G got kernel panic. When Asus Eee 701 4G can boot, everything works as thin client for Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6.

There is howto for that:

http://linux.or.id/node/2026

Here is client's chroot files (dmesg and ps ax) as a attachment.

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.

[Asmo Koskinen (asmok)]

This is still an issue in Karmic. But there is a howto for atl2 driver.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLtspAsusEee

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

LTSP notifies initramfs-tools to use MODULES="netboot":

$ grep MODULES /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ltsp
MODULES="netboot"

The previous versions of initramfs-tools used a hardcoded list of modules in that case, and atl2, atl1c, jme, r8169 etc were missing.
I think that this problem was fixed in recent initramfs-tools versions, where the list of modules is determined automatically.

Adding initramfs-tools to "Affects", and maybe someone can verify that this problem is fixed-released in Natty.

[Asmo Koskinen (asmok)]

This one is fixed in Natty. I use here Asus Eee 900.

root@ltsp138:~# dmesg | grep atl2
[ 2.645615] atl2 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 2.645696] atl2 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 4.941981] atl2 0000:03:00.0: irq 40 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 5.147333] atl2: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
root@ltsp138:~#

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.