Summary: | net-wireless/iwlwifi-1.0.0_p1 on sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2 kernel panics | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Paul Gratz <pgratz> |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Saleem Abdulrasool (RETIRED) <compnerd> |
Status: | VERIFIED NEEDINFO | ||
Severity: | critical | CC: | pgratz |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Paul Gratz
2007-08-15 06:28:54 UTC
I just wanted to add that I have tried this with the older version of iwlwifi on gentoo 2.6.22-r2 with the same results. I also tried gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r3 with the same results and iwlwifi-1.0.0-p1. Finally I tried vanilla kernel w/ iwlwifi-1.0.0-p1 and there I do not get kernel panics. Wifi does not work very well and I still get the kernel bugs in dmesg but it does not panic. Latest iwlwifi module version is 0.1.12, not 1.0.x. iwlwifi-0.1.12 more recent. I am unable to actually reproduce this locally, however, I am not using gentoo-sources (Im using a vanilla kernel). Could you please provide the output of the kernel bug messages? Seems like something is not dealing well with memory causing the slab allocator to die. Sorry, I should have closed this. I found that when I went to the mac80211 instead of the ieee80211 the bugs and kernel panics go away. It still does not work very well, very poor performance, but I'm following up on that with an open bug w/ the upstream iwlwifi development team. PS. we might want to add a check for MAC80211 and not IEEE80211 in the ebuild so other people don't run into this. |