Illegal Instructions o' plenty

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Well I have hit a road block that I can't seem to surpass.

I have a VIA EPIA with a C3 processor and I have successfully compiled a stage3 2.4.26 kernel. I was attempting to list my devices using lspci when I first came across the error

lspci
Illegal Instruction

I built support for pci and hotplug into the kernel. Knowing my hardware, I continued with loading of my wireless card module and then I saw the error again.

iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b+ ESSID:"STA09D4A0" Nickname:"acx100 v0.2.0pre8"
Illegal Instruction

Finally, I emerged dhcp and dnsmasq successfully but when setting IFACE='wlan0' to be the device that it used more Illegal Instructions appeared. Trying to initialize using /etc/init.d/dhcp start i get error:
/sbin/rc: line 532: 1480 Illegal Instruction ...

I have tried everything I can think of but I'm at my wit's end. I have re-compiled using different CFLAGS and CHOST= i586, still no success.

I can't seem to find any more information about the error, hopefully I can get some help.
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I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

[mkw22468]

did you try -march=i386 and CHOST as i386?

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I tried re-compiling with -march=i386 and CHOST='i386 but still the same problem. What I find intereting is that when I boot from the livecd everything works fine. lspci doesn't return an illegal instruction. Im still stumped.
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I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

[mkw22468]

can you post your make.conf?

[Tiger683]

I don't know for 2.4 kernels, but the 2.6 has special options to be marked for this hardware to get it working properly, and i think it isn't the most supported, tried 2.6 kernel?

[ummmmmmmmm]

Here is my original make.conf:

CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -m3dnow -pipe"
CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

Changing to i386 didn't change anything. Still the same errors.
I want to avoid going to 2.6 if possible.
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I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

[Chaosite]

What are the contents of /proc/cpuinfo ?

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/proc/cpuinfo

processor : 0
vendor id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : VIA Samuel 2
stepping : 3
cpu Mhz : 800.047
cache size : 64KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid_level : 1
up : yes
flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips : 1595.80

When I compiled the kernel, I set the cpu as a Cyrix III , C3.
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I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

[ummmmmmmmm]

Still no Luck with resolving this illegal instruction issue.

A thought:

Could it be related to the modules I have built into the kernel?

I have re-compiled several times. Used the EPIA patch found at epiawiki. Followed
every spec and guideline I could find, yet I'm still having this issue. All my hardware
seems to be working fine, as I can ping the machine using the wireless pci card.

Any thoughts?
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I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

[lyonsd]

Similar problems here. I discovered a number of failures doing emerges. I tracked down at least two commands that give me the "Illegal instruction" message: /bin/sort and /usr/bin/find

I did a listing on the directories to see when these commands were built:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14056 Jul 8 2007 basename*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17576 Jul 8 2007 cat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32932 Jul 8 2007 chgrp*
...
...
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46484 Jul 8 2007 sort*
...
...
...

And the interesting thing is that all of the other commands I tried which have the same date do not result in that error. I thought it was my march setting.

So what I need to know are what packages sort and find come it so I can try rebuiilding them.
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Dave