[indiana-discuss] After changing Wireless Card, the end?

[Matt Ingenthron]

Hi Luis,

Comments inline...

Luis Useche wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. At this point I don't have my computer on and I 
> am kind of "desperate".
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Matt Ingenthron 
> <Matt.Ingenthron at sun.com <mailto:Matt.Ingenthron at sun.com>> wrote:
>
>     Luis Useche wrote:
>
>         Hi Guys,
>
>         Something very odd happen to my OS 2008.11 snv_106 today. I
>         replaced my old wireless network card with another of
>         identical model. The previous one worked perfect. However, for
>         some reason, the new one broke the whole system! My OS is not
>         even able to boot! I don't have gdm, no console, nothing!
>         Thus, no clue on what could be happening.
>          
>
>
>     At what point does it fail?  I presume you see grub?
>
> I do see grub. However, after I select an entry (the latest version), 
> it shows the progress bar and freezes.

Got it.  Does it fail if you select an old boot environment, like one of 
the original ones?

>  
>
>
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>     "identical models" may change from a manufacturer.  There are lots
>     of revisions of the same chip, each sometimes has errata.  You may
>     try disabling the device driver by modifying the GRUB menu line:
>     http://blogs.sun.com/setje/entry/disabling_toxic_drivers 
>
>
>
>     If it does turn out to be the driver, please file a bug with some
>     details about the hardware.
>
>         At leat, I am able to mount my zfs with the 2008.11 livecd.
>          
>
>
>     Does the wireless device work there?  If so, you may have a
>     different issue.
>
> After I disable the driver in the grub, it boots successfully. 
> However,  when I boot into the livecd, the wireless card works. I 
> guess this indicates in some extent that the driver does not have any bug.

I'm not sure I follow that.  There could be a bug in the device driver 
in build 106, since you did a pkg image-update.  That bug could have 
been introduced after build 101b, which is what's on the live CD.  It 
could even be an interaction between the new driver and the new 
hardware... though that sounds unlikely.

If you disable the driver and can boot build 106 from the disk, and you 
can boot from the CD with the driver enabled, I'd look in the 
/var/adm/messages log on the zpool.  Chances are, you'll find some error 
messages.  From there, you'll likely want to file a bug against the 
device driver: bugs.opensolaris.org

Hope that helps,

- Matt