On 2/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tzafrir Cohen</b> <<a href="mailto:tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com">tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 07:52:25PM +0330, Paradise Dove wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I'm running FC3 with kernel 2.6.11.<br>> All the binary files and zaptel kernel modules is not available to system at<br>> boot time.
<br>> They are extracted in a ram disk at system startup and then zaptel modules<br>> are loaded manually and so on.<br>> I have no problem with this boot routine and i've been tested all digium<br>> cards (expect tdm24) and they work fine till now.
<br>><br>> The problem appeared when i purchased the new TDM2400 card. after installing<br>> this new card system stopped on modprobe wctdm24xxp ot boot time! (randomly<br>> sleeping on "Resetting the modules.." / "During Resetting the modules..."
<br>> and sometimes "After resetting the modules...) but no step further.<br>> Nothing happened till i killed modprobe manually so no modules detected on<br>> tdm24. (Port 1: Not Installed, ....)<br>> My motherboard is a brand new Intel 3010 chipset from supermicro with
<br>> 3.3Vpci slots. i also changed the motherboard to Intel 7230 chipset<br>> with 5V slot<br>> but nothing changed. I also switched back to zaptel-1.2.13 and removed the<br>> modules from the board and re-inserted them as digium support recommended,
<br>> but nothing changed. I also changed to 2.6.12 kernel but still the same<br>> problem.<br>><br>> Finally i changed the system startup routine and copied all extracted zaptel<br>> files to hard-disk into the standard location in kernel dirs and found that
<br>> now system starts-up with no problem and detects TDM24 at boot time!!!<br><br>Hmmm...<br><br>How exactly do you load the modules? With insmod or modprobe?</blockquote><div><br>when i put zaptel modules in kernel dirs. it detects all the needed modules. and from the dmesg it seems (as it should be) to load zaptel first and then wctdm24xxp. so i don't need to do a insmod or modprobe at all. the problem comes when i rmmod these modules and modprobe or insmod them again.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">><br>> it seemed that the problem is that the wctdm24xxp needs to be detected at
<br>> boot time by the kernel.<br>> But now the problem is that when i rmmod the wctdm24xxp module and modprobe<br>> it again still system doesn't detect it and sleeps on modprobe utill i kill<br>> it.<br>
><br>> i dont have such a problem with all other cards from digium.<br>> i think this is a weird problem with wctdm24xxp driver.<br><br>Another theory: only the first modprobe after a boot is successful, and<br>the modules are loaded automatically at boot.
</blockquote><div><br>no it's not true that the first modprobe is the successful one. it seems the card works when kernel detects it and loads the modules itself. something that happens before init scripts. <br></div>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Test: remove the modules copletely, reboot, re-add the modules and<br>modprobe again.</blockquote>
<div><br>you mean remove the physical modules? if yes i've done it once. made no sense<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
--<br> Tzafrir Cohen<br>icq#16849755 <a href="mailto:jabber:tzafrir@jabber.org">jabber:tzafrir@jabber.org</a><br>+972-50-7952406 mailto:<a href="mailto:tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com">
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