SPAM-LOW: Re: Atheros 5212 based card causing system freeze - suggested replacement?

[Adrian Chadd]

On 30 August 2011 15:21, Geoff Roberts <geoff at apro.com.au> wrote:

> Unfortunately booting from the 32 bit 8.2-R i386 system froze when loading
> the ath driver. Same as the 64 bit system.

That's not good. :(

> The new system (apart from a new motherboard, CPU and architecture :)) also
> has more than 4GB  RAM installed. I guess in theory the 32 bit kernel should
> take that out of the equation.

Can you please take out memory above 2GB and let me know what happens?

> Is there any other debug information I can help with, or is this looking
> more like an intractable low-level PCI/BIOS/Firmware interface issue?

Nope; I'd like to figure out why it's not working..


adrian