Help debugging kernel BUG

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:14:37PM -0500, Ian Petersen wrote:
> Nope.  It uses the tg3 module (the "Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver").

Hmm, OK.  I wonder why it wouldn't have an intel chip instead.  Who
knows.

> Well, the reason for enabling iptables was to use the laptop as a
> wireless bridge so the ideal solution would include iptables and some
> kind of driver for the ethernet port.  Are you still interested in the
> results?  (I only ask because this debugging is somewhat academic at
> this point--I bought a wireless NIC for the desktop, rather than using
> the laptop as a bridge--so the effort to rebuild with iptables and
> without the ethernet card is no longer as trivial as it would have
> been.)

Well if you have a solution that works for you then I guess it isn't
very relevant.  It is also a Dell so it may even be a BIOS bug.  Dell
loves making BIOS bugs after all.

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