I sent this as a mail to the general gentoo mailing list but I think it will be better to report it as a bug. I have an IBM wifi card that has an Atheros chipset that was working perfectly with the madwifi driver untill the update that happened recently, now it is a big mess. When I plug it in or at boot if it is plugged in when coldplugging pnp devices I got somethig like: PREEMPT Modules linked in: md5 ipv6 pcmcia tsdev ohci_hcd parport_pc parport floppy psmouse rtc pcspkr yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core tg3 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc i2c_i801 i2c_core piix shpchp pci_hotplug ehci_hcd uhci_hcd intelfb intel_agp agpgart evdev usbcore aes_i586 dm_crypt ath_pci ath_rate_sample ath_rate_onoe ath_rate_amrr wlan_xauth wlan_wep wlan_tkip wlan_ccmp wlan_acl wlan ath_hal ibm_acpi thermal processor fan button battery ac loop dm_mod ide_cd cdrom nls_utf8 nls_base CPU:
I sent this as a mail to the general gentoo mailing list but I think it will be better to report it as a bug. I have an IBM wifi card that has an Atheros chipset that was working perfectly with the madwifi driver untill the update that happened recently, now it is a big mess. When I plug it in or at boot if it is plugged in when coldplugging pnp devices I got somethig like: PREEMPT Modules linked in: md5 ipv6 pcmcia tsdev ohci_hcd parport_pc parport floppy psmouse rtc pcspkr yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core tg3 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc i2c_i801 i2c_core piix shpchp pci_hotplug ehci_hcd uhci_hcd intelfb intel_agp agpgart evdev usbcore aes_i586 dm_crypt ath_pci ath_rate_sample ath_rate_onoe ath_rate_amrr wlan_xauth wlan_wep wlan_tkip wlan_ccmp wlan_acl wlan ath_hal ibm_acpi thermal processor fan button battery ac loop dm_mod ide_cd cdrom nls_utf8 nls_base CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<f01436a0>] Tainted: P VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.12-suspend2-r4) EIP is at ath_rate_ctl_reset+0xd0/0x470 [ath_rate_sample] eax: 00000000 ebx: ee300800 ecx: ec62c000 edx: 00000000 esi: 70007972 edi: 00000000 ebp: ee300800 esp: ed8e5cc8 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process pccardd (pid: 6197, threadinfo=ed8e4000 task=ef3db020) Stack: c034e946 ed8e5d10 00000046 ef22ca40 c042ff10 000f4bd1 ef22ca40 ef22ca40 4145c780 000f4bd1 000d9038 4145c780 000f4bd1 ef22ca40 ee3009fc ec62c620 ec62c000 ee300800 f01a1490 ee300ff8 ec62c000 f01a242b ec62c000 ee300800 Call Trace: [<c034e946>] schedule+0x336/0x620 [<f01a1490>] ath_key_update_begin+0x0/0x70 [ath_pci] [<f01a242b>] ath_node_alloc+0x9b/0xc0 [ath_pci] [<f01a1490>] ath_key_update_begin+0x0/0x70 [ath_pci] [<f0189f93>] ieee80211_node_lateattach+0x13/0xe0 [wlan] [<f01a1490>] ath_key_update_begin+0x0/0x70 [ath_pci] [<f0183a9f>] ieee80211_media_init+0x1f/0x4a0 [wlan] [<f01a198c>] ath_setslottime+0x2c/0x50 [ath_pci] [<f018453f>] ieee80211_watchdog+0x5f/0x90 [wlan] [<f0183699>] ieee80211_ifattach+0x159/0x2e0 [wlan] [<f01a1500>] ath_key_update_end+0x0/0x70 [ath_pci] [<f01a1490>] ath_key_update_begin+0x0/0x70 [ath_pci] [<f0189f93>] ieee80211_node_lateattach+0x13/0xe0 [wlan] [<f01a1490>] ath_key_update_begin+0x0/0x70 [ath_pci] [<f0183a9f>] ieee80211_media_init+0x1f/0x4a0 [wlan] [<f01a198c>] ath_setslottime+0x2c/0x50 [ath_pci] [<f018453f>] ieee80211_watchdog+0x5f/0x90 [wlan] [<f0183699>] ieee80211_ifattach+0x159/0x2e0 [wlan] [<f01a1500>] ath_key_update_end+0x0/0x70 [ath_pci] [<f01a1490>] ath_key_update_begin+0x0/0x70 [ath_pci] [<f019f889>] ath_attach+0x889/0xb00 [ath_pci] [<f01a0b40>] ath_media_change+0x0/0x40 [ath_pci] [<f0184360>] ieee80211_media_status+0x0/0x180 [wlan] [<f01a6656>] ath_pci_probe+0x226/0x3e0 [ath_pci] [<c025b162>] pci_device_probe_static+0x52/0x70 [<c025b1bc>] __pci_device_probe+0x3c/0x50 [<c025b1fc>] pci_device_probe+0x2c/0x50 if I try to connect I get: # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start * Starting ath0 * Bringing up ath0 * Configuration not set for ath0 - assuming dhcp * dhcp * ath0 does not exist in some cases I just get: failed to connect. Checking a bit more, ath0 doesn't exist, and I can't even see it on lspci. When I unplug it, I get a kernel panic. I am loading the modules: ath_hal wlan wlan_acl wlan_ccmp wlan_tkip wlan_wep wlan_xauth ath_rate_amrr ath_rate_onoe ath_pci at boot thru /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
I masked the new one and emerged the previous one and I still get the same behaviour.
That's a known issue, see bug #102104 - which, among others problems, is why net-wireless/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20050809 is package.masked. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102104 *** *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102104 ***
Please provide real version numbers. Please remove /lib/modules/your_kernel/net/* before up/downgrades
