Kernel Panics and logging

[flaw3d]

Hi,

I am currently trying to get a USB-IrDA circuit that I designed to function in linux. It actually uses an USB-Serial Chip (FTDI232BM) interfaced with an MCP2120 - which some of you may know has a dongle driver for it. The FTDI chip also has a driver to it, I can perform loopback tests (using the mcp2120 as a loopback device) through it, fine and I know generally that the voltage levels on the chip are all fine.

Now I am trying to irattach it with irattach /dev/usb/tts/0 -d mcp2120 -s.

Anyway, I'm not here for development help:

About 5 secs later I get a kernel panic, on a gentoo machine this means zero indication other than it freezes. Redhat is a bit more verbose and will dump a whole load of stuff to the screen. My problem is I need to read this "whole load of crap" to figure out what is going wrong. Unfortunately I cannot find a log of this anywhere on my gentoo machine. Can somebody point me to an outline on how to achieve this?