Kernel Hang on Dell Inspiron 8000

dave227 · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 14

I'm trying to get through my first reboot on my Inspiron 8000

the kernel hangs on:

uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbce0, IRQ 11

Any suggestions?

oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

Did you try the alternative UHCI driver?
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MBMarduk · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 3:30 am Post subject:

With those name-brand boxes (dell, compaq etc.) you can never know for sure what components are inside, if you ask me.
If you want to rule out flakey USB hanging your kernel just compile a kernel without any USB support inside, if THAT works then add the USB support (enable all host controllers, or what does a "DELL mobo" have?).

watersb · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 3:56 am Post subject:

I have been using Gentoo on my Inspiron 8000 for 15+ months now. USB usually works for me.

What version of the kernel are you using? Which Gentoo kernel package?

(I am working through a new install with the 1.4rc2 liveCD at the moment, so I can't get to the details of my USB kernel configuration. I can post this as soon as I can get to it.)

heijs · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 2:08 pm Post subject:

For my Inpsiron 8200 I use the Intel UHCI and that works perfectly

green sun · Guru Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 325 Location: Wista, MA

Try using the vanilla sources for the kernel. I switched to them & this problem went away.

jord

watersb · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 11:19 pm Post subject:

Because it's very long, here is a
link to my gentoo-sources-acpi kernel config
and my
older crypto-sources config using APM and grsecurity.

Here is the relevant USB section from the crypto-sources 2.4.19 kernel config, with only the SET options noted (all other flags are not set):

UclaBob · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 83

Try disabling SMP in your kernel...that worked for me and my Inspiron 4150

Bob