When trying to use the ebuild from bug #58483 (net-wireless/rt2500-1.1.0_beta1) my system crashes completely. Not even Ctrl+Alt+Del works so I have to perform a hard reset. The ebuild does compile but the problem arises when I start the interface with "/etc/init.d/net.ra0 start", or even when I just modprobe the module. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. AmpersandGentoo ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jan 14 2005, 21:42:35)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.9.4, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" 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/portage" SYNC="rsync://GentooMirror/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 S3TC X X509 aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bootsplash bsh cdparanoia cgi cjk crypt cups curl dga directfb doc dvd dvdr encode esd f77 fam fbcon flac font-server foomaticdb foreign-package foreign-sysvinit fortran freetype fs gdbm gif gphoto2 gpmgtk2 imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos krb4 lcd libg++ libwww mad md5sum memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn ncurses nls noreiserfs nvidia oav odbc offensive oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl openssh pam pcap pda pdf pdflib perl png pnp povray ppds python qt quicktimereadline real samba scanner sdl skey slp snmp speedo speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcpd theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1 type1-fontsunicode usb wifi wmf wxwindows xine xml xml2 xmms xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
in fact, modprobe rt2500 results in a "kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt" with a stack trace too large to reproduce. On the contrary, after starting the interface without modprobing first I first see a message like "starting interface ra0" and the screen fills with strings of "=". Again, both result in complete lockups.
Can you please report your problems to http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Best use one of their mailing lists.
This should be fixed with beta2
I'm sorry but the problem remains. Even if I do "modprobe rt2500 debug=1" I get a stack dump and a kernel panic.
sorry there is nothing I can do about it. Please contact the original authors .. I did not write the code. I am sure they would like to receive feedback on their driver.
