Attempting to load the driver for this FDDI card causes the display to immediately go blank and the system proceeds to reboot.
Well, obviously we need to know kernel version. While we are at it, is the problem reproducible with latest vanilla-sources (2.6.15_rc7 currently)?
Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gent oo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share /config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/sha re/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/gen eric/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bin d /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.math.bme.hu http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gd.tu wien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors1.netvisao.pt/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cr ypt curl dbase dbm divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode exif expat f77 ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagema gick imlib ipv6 jpeg kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod milter mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python r eadline samba sdl slang sox ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts typ e1-fonts udev vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xml2 xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_l inux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY bash# lspci|egrep -i fddi 0000:00:06.0 FDDI network controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DEFPA (rev 01) Hard to say anything else, except that bug# 4065 on bugzilla.kernel.org might have a bearing upon this.
Jakub, you were quick off the blocks there - I was scratching around for the extra information required. I have yet to try the vanilla sources - I'll report when I get around to trying.
With the latest version of modutils, this problem has disappeared!