Hi, I just emerged the latest ndiswrapper, brought down my interface, rmmoded the old ndiswrapper, and modprobed the new one and brought the interface back up. I checked dmesg and it showed ndiswrapper-1.5 as loaded, and my interface worked as expected. I left my machine on overnight, and when I woke up this morning, the interface wasn't working. Dmesg showed the following: ndiswrapper version 1.5 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes) ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5a (Broadcom,04/09/2004, 3.40.69.0) loaded ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ndiswrapper: using irq 18 wlan0: vendor: '' wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:11:50:08:83:b5 using driver bcmwl5a, 14E4: 4320.5.conf wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA; AES/CCMP with WPA divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: ndiswrapper usb_storage ipt_state snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss s nd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus sn d_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd so undcore wacom bridge cowloop ip_conntrack_ftp ip_conntrack tun nvidia agpgart rt c pcspkr CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<f9700d72>] Tainted: P VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.14) EIP is at update_wireless_stats+0xe2/0x100 [ndiswrapper] eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000064 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: f70f3368 edi: c9a33f0c ebp: 00000202 esp: c9a33e40 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process ndiswrapwq (pid: 2507, threadinfo=c9a32000 task=f6aa7570) Stack: 000000c4 ffffffda 00000068 80000000 00005cd6 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000198 00000000 00000065 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 000002d8 00000000 00000009 00000000 00000000 00000000 Call Trace: [<f9701077>] wrapper_worker_proc+0x2c7/0x3c0 [ndiswrapper] [<c0130e7a>] remove_wait_queue+0x1a/0x50 [<c012c924>] worker_thread+0x1b4/0x240 [<f9700db0>] wrapper_worker_proc+0x0/0x3c0 [ndiswrapper] [<c0118260>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 [<c0118260>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 [<c012c770>] worker_thread+0x0/0x240 [<c0130b14>] kthread+0xa4/0xe0 [<c0130a70>] kthread+0x0/0xe0 [<c0101145>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10 Code: 89 46 18 8b 54 24 0c 85 d2 74 31 8b 44 24 1c 8d 04 40 8d 04 48 b9 06 00 00 00 0f af d1 01 d8 bb 64 00 00 00 0f af c3 89 d1 31 d2 <f7> f1 ba 64 00 00 00 28 c2 88 56 02 e9 42 ff ff ff c6 46 02 64 I realise this has been unmasked so that people can use ndiswrapper with the 2.6.14 kernel, however, I've submitted a patch for ndiswrapper-1.2 which I've been using since the 2.6.14_rc1 kernel came out and my connection has been rock solid. It's available in Bug #111029. I would recommend people test that, and remask ndiswrapper-1.5 again until the ndiswrapper team get all the bugs out that they introduced in 1.3 (it must be said, ndiswrapper-1.4 used to lock my kernel, so 1.5 is a big improvement). Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge ndiswrapper-1.5 2. Leave it for a while, with mild network traffic 3. Actual Results: Network interface failed, dmesg error was seen. Expected Results: No error should occur, network interface should stay up. Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect cvs distlocks sandbox sfperms strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/personal" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 100dpi 3dnow 75dpi X aac aalib acl acpi adns alsa animation ao audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts boundschecking cairo ccache cdr cjk client crypt cups dbus djvu dlloader dpms dri dvd dvdr dvi eds emboss encode ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glade glitz gnome gnutls graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hardened imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg junit ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod mime mmx mmxext motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nntp nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic pie plot png pop3 postgres python quicktime readline real sdl server snmp spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg svga t1lib tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xrandr xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
I just added ndiswrapper-1.7. Please test using that.
Marking as NEEDINFO.
Sorry, I completely forgot to get back to this. ndiswrapper 1.7 seems to be working fine, however I am now on 2.6.15_rc7 so it may just be a particular kernel version that was having difficulty. This can now be marked as FIXED.
This no longer seems to be a problem for me, so I'm gonna mark it fixed.
