boot hangs when udev encounters webcam
I have just installed slack-13.1 on an acer aspire one netbook from a usb stick by booting the install kernel with noudev. I was able to do a complete install including lilo but upon rebooting my boot hangs when encountering my webcam.
I see enough info to note the id as 0c45:62c0. This is a microdia webcam which I may be able to do something about later but in the first instance I'd like to be able to boot my system. The bios is very basic and there is no way to disable devices. Can anyone suggest another way to bypass loading the webcam modules at boot? |
You should blacklist the module in '/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf', but if you're using the huge kernel, the driver may be built-in, in which case it won't work. You'll have to use the generic kernel + initrd.
Is it using the uvc drivers ? I don't think they come with the kernel, so it might be something else. |
Curious.
I have this device in my Acer eMachine 250. Running '/sbin/lsusb' gives: Quote:
I am running the 2.6.33.4-smp generic kernel with an initrd. I do not understand this: Quote:
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I do know that a webcam with a microdia chip was very problematic 2 years ago on another machine. I don't need a webcam but running slack on this machine would be better than a tu .... so I ask. |
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After booting with the bootimg and running lspci I can see that my wireless is a BCM4312 802.11b/g. I have found some info on the net indicating that the 2.6.33 drivers may not work with this card although theres an Arch wiki on this chipset here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312 which may prove usefull if indeed it is the wireless module. |
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Thanks,
I was thinking along those lines. It'll be next on my list when I have the time. I normally build my own boxes. Haven't purchased a computer off the shelf in a very long time, What a pain in the butt! |
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Supposedly there may be a way to stop modules from loading by passing boot options, I've never heard of this, and it may be distro-specific. http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl...h05s02.html.en http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/li...007/1/27/48498 |
hi justwantin
its not clear to me, if you are using wireless to connect to net or not. Also if its wireless issue maybe you could post your lspci id for that pesky device? if its now the wireless issue, maybe you could edit your first post to change the subject, when you get a chance please? You may like to publish your exact make and model of your computer and maybe do a search for it and wireless? BTW I am not a wireless expert, I came here as I have some webcam experience. good luck |
I haven't connected to the net yet. I haven't been able to boot after install yet due to what I at first thought was udev failing on loding the web cam drivers but now thats not the problem and I'm thinking the next in line for udev would be the wireless and I'm just thinking it might be the driver stock driverfor the broadcom chipset not being quite right for my machine.
Can't do much more as I'm at work on a very thin client |
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I'll have a look at the Broadcom wireless modules later and will probably set up eth0 for now. Just for the record, this was an Acer Aspire One 751. It just went to sleep and don't want to wake up LOL! |
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Thanks again!
did the slackbuilds up but il defer setting up wireless until I read up on it a bit. If I need a heads up I'll do it in a new thread. How do I marke this thread solved? |
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There is a setting in the forum software that allows you to change the thread to SOLVED. I can't remember where it is though. |
I used wicd to get wireless going on a mobo out in my shop on current in Feb. It worked but I never went any further than that as it wasn't needed I hadn't gotten my head around the security issues yet.
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