Am 13/11/2012 20:58, schrieb David Given:
I have an old Sony Vaio with an ipw2100 wifi chipset. I installed Haiku a4 on it and it all seemed to work fine. Unfortunately, after running the script to download the wifi firmware bundle, it has now stopped booting.
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freezing before the debug log gets flushed to the screen. Is there a way to make this synchronous?)
Nope. However, ...
It boots fine in safe mode.
You can launch the net_server manually in safe mode. It should then hang as well, but you'll get a cleaner log.
I'm *sure* I remember this happening in a3... any ideas?
No, but are you able to drop into the kernel debugger? This can be done in a normal alpha system by pressing IIRC Alt-SysReq-d.
Bye, Axel.