kernel bug

[Ben Scott]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, amc <acrossonlnx at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time.

  Brand and model of laptop?

  You mention Gentoo.  Have you tried any other distros?  Nothing
against Gentoo, but the "build everything yourself" approach means
every Gentoo install is different, which is something of a tech
support nightmare.

> the bug says unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
> address 80370665 and gave me a lot of call trace info and stack info.
> this problem only happens when I boot my laptop.

  What was is doing right before it crashed?  That is to say, what
part of the boot process was it in?

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:32 AM, amc <acrossonlnx at comcast.net> wrote:
> I did noticed that some of the kernel crashed message had something about
> ndiswrapper which I am using at the time due to how badly Broadcom works on
> my laptop.

  ndiswrapper is not the most stable thing in the world.  On some
hardware, it frequently causes kernel crashes.  One thing you can do
is make sure you have the latest version of ndiswrapper installed, and
then try different versions of the Windows network card driver you're
trying to load.

  Is this wireless or Ethernet?  Do you know what particular Broadcom
network controller your laptop has?

-- Ben