[64studio-devel] HP nc6320 laptop boot and USB problem

[Chris]

Hi, I hope I am not in the wrong place.

I've installed 64studio version 1 on this laptop. Installation appeared 
to go ok
but I think the machine fails to find the hard disk and after a long 
delay (2
minutes -ish) boots to a minimal system in memory. To get a dmesg I
will either have to type it by hand or solve another problem which is 
that network and USB devices are not recognised. I've at least put
part of my dmesg below - hand typed so may have errors.

I tried modprobe with each of the sata_*.ko modules and got output
similar the dmesg output.

I'm fairly new to Linux but am used to FreeBSD so I can do unix, I just
don't know Linux specific commands or ways of doing things.

So I would appreciate a bit of guidance on getting the machine booting
or getting a USB pen drive working but I don't know which to work on first.

Thanks very much for any help

Chris



ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000056100 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 233
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000056180 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 233
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000056200 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 233
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000056280 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 233
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP:
<ffffffff8035b60e>{make_class_name+34}
PGD 3d824067 PUD 3d825067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] PREEMPT
CPU 0
Modules linked in: ahci libata scsi_mod piix uhci_hcd ehci_hcd generic 
ide_core ohci1394 iee1394 tg3 thermal processor fan
Pid: 1689, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.17-1-multimedia-amd64-k8 #1
RIP: 0010[<ffffffff8035b60e>]
RSP: 0000:ffff81993df25c78  EFLAGS: 00010296
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: fffffffffffffff4 RCX: ffffffffffffffff
RDX: ffff81003eae10c0 RSI: ffffffffffffffff RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff81003dbd6500    R08: 0000000000000000    R09: ffffc20000200000
R10: ffff81003dce4e40 R11: ffffc20000801000 R12: ffffffff881004a8
R13: ffffffff88100360    R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00002af1802376d0(0000) GS:ffffffff804fd000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000003da10000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process modprobe (pid: 1689, threadinfo ffff81003df24000, task 
ffff81003eae10c0)
Stack: ffff81003dce4e40 ffffffff8028c9cc ffff81003dce4e40 ffff81003dbd6500
        ffffffff88100498 ffffffff8035b857 ffff81003dbfc9c0 ffff81003dbd6500
        ffff81003dbd6000 ffff81003ddfa800
Call Trace:
        <ffffffff8028c9cc>{rt_down+21}
        <ffffffff8035b857>{class_device_del+150}
        <ffffffff8035b930>{class_device_unregister+9}
        <ffffffff880dca2e>{:scsi_mod:scsi_remove_host+232}
        <ffffffff88103c0f>{:libata:ata_host_remove+16}
        <ffffffff88106e04>{:libata:ata_device_add+1423}
        <ffffffff881182b8>{:ahci:ahci_init_one+1774}
        <ffffffff80305354>{pci_device_probe+76}
        <ffffffff8035afbd>{driver_probe_device+82}
        <ffffffff8035b059>{__driver_attach+70}
        <ffffffff8035b013>{__driver_attach+0}
        <ffffffff8035aa9b>{bus_for_each_dev+67}
        <ffffffff8035a581>{bus_add_driver+129}
        <ffffffff803054ea>{__pci_register_driver+84}
        <ffffffff8028e1cf>{sys_init_module+167}
        <ffffffff80258b4e>{system_call+126}


Code: f2 ae 48 8b 85 a0 00 00 00 48 89 ca 48 89 f1 be d0 00 00 00
RIP <ffffffff8035b60e>{make_class_name+34} RSP <ffff81003df25c78>
CR2: 0000000000000000

***The following line is on screen but not in dmesg***
udevd-event[1689]: run_program: '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit
***The following line is on screen and in dmesg***
  <6>hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA

  Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
  Probing IDE interface ide1...
  usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
  usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
  Initialising USB Mass Storage driver...