In anticipation of my DK2 arriving in Berlin (Oculus refused to update the shipping address to Berlin, so it had to make a stop in my office in LA first; it’s currently in transit), I booted up the Linux dev box I’ve been carrying around. One problem became apparent booting up: I have a Bluetooth keyboard, but the Linux bootup sequence requires a USB keyboard because I set it up (on a whim) to run a cryptfs, and also because on an unsuccessful boot (like a powerdown) the default configuration for GRUB is for it to hang on the GRUB selection screen indefinitely (you can fix this by adding GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=X to /etc/default/grub and then running update-grub).
OK, I ordered a cheap keyboard on Amazon.de. Got it.
So I’m able to boot now, except now I’m getting (this is new), kernel panics while booting… something related to the rtl8821ae wifi module… This is a little strange because this didn’t show in the office, but probably had to do w/ some combination of not being on a wired network…
Turns out, there are indeed some problems:
- Kernel panic on driver rtl8821ae – getting warm
- 10ec:8821 [Gigabyte GB-BXi7-4470R] Kernel panic in rtl8821ae – bingo, discussion is so typical
- [3.13.0-30.55] rtl8821ae Kernel PANIC due to calling incorrect function – fix committed for Trusty but only released for Utopic?
In the meantime I’ve blacklisted (you’ll need to remount,rw / from recovery) the rtl8821ae module. This took a lot of reboots/futzing, all told an hour+ of my life I’ll never get back.
Lunix, after a couple decades, still just working!