Bug 437237

Summary: 2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686 and rtl8180 panic
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andrew Pegram <deltafox1229>
Component: kernelAssignee: John W. Linville <linville>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Andrew Pegram 2008-03-13 03:57:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
Booting up or inserting my PC Card RTL8185 WLAN adapter causes a kernel panic

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686

How reproducible:
Every boot with the card installed, or every time the card is inserted.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. install/update to kernel version 2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686
2. insert RTL8185 wlan PC card (or card based on the RTL8180)
  
Actual results:
Kernel panic

Expected results:
A functional, WLAN-capable Fedora machine

Additional info:
The attached error message was reproduced from a picture of the screen, so there
may be errors (especially with 0's and 8's; the picture was really fuzzy)
Comment 1 Andrew Pegram 2008-03-13 03:57:50 UTC 
Created attachment 297888 [details]
The error message
Comment 2 Andrew Pegram 2008-03-13 04:15:58 UTC 
Created attachment 297889 [details]
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So you can check the message text against what I saw.
Comment 3 John W. Linville 2008-03-13 15:34:40 UTC 
Can you replicate this issue with the most recent F-8 kernel?

   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=42735
Comment 4 Andrew Pegram 2008-03-14 14:37:09 UTC 
Problem solved! Works even better than 2.6.23. Thank you for the tip.
Comment 5 John W. Linville 2008-03-14 14:41:15 UTC 
Great!  How about adding some karma?

   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/pending/kernel-2.6.24.3-34.fc8