Bug 441457

Summary: Plugging in usb wireless adapter immediately hangs system
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mike C <mike.cloaked>
Component: kernelAssignee: John W. Linville <linville>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: rawhideCC: kernel-maint
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-04-16 12:24:04 UTC Type: ---
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Screen showing output immediately after plugging in usb adapter
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Screen about 20 seconds after image in previous attachment
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printk captured via netconsole (equivalent to images above) none

Description Mike C 2008-04-08 08:04:09 UTC 
Description of problem:Plugging in Edimax EW-7318UG (version V3.0B) usb wireless
adapter immediately hangs the system. Alt-SysRq-b is needed to reboot.


Version-Release number of selected component (if
applicable):kernel-2.6.25-0.200.rc8.git3.fc9.i686 (also .201 and .204)


How reproducible:Every time


Steps to Reproduce: 
1. Boot machine without wireless adapter plugged in
2. Plug in wireless adapter
3.
  
Actual results: System immediately hangs, and there is no response from
mouse/keyboard or ctrl-alt-backspace (desktop is kde and login manager is kdm)
Alt-Sysrq-b will reboot the machine.


Expected results: System should continue working with the rt73usb module loaded
correctly so that wireless communication can then be established using
wpa_supplicant.


Additional info: Kernels from .185 and earlier worked fine with this adapter.
wpa_supplicant works fine with kernels up to .185 but will not work with .200
through .204 since as soon as the wireless adapter is plugged in the system
crashes.

With kernel .204 the only entry in /var/log/messages was:
Apr  7 21:55:37 rawhide kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using
uhci_hcd and address 2

The hardware is
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_c02c95fc-b8de-4916-85fe-cf1c96f33f7e
Comment 1 Pete Zaitcev 2008-04-08 17:40:21 UTC 
It's likely the rsyslogd is unable to write the crash into files.

What does happen if you're on text console when you plug it in?
Please do this:
 <Ctrl><Alt>F1
 log in as root
 echo 8 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
 resizecons -lines 50
 plug the adapter in
At this point you are likely to see a traceback which can be taken
with a camera (capturing it with netconsole would be even better,
but that requires reading Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
which is confusing and out of date, then installing netcat (which
RPM is named "nc" in Fedora)).
Comment 2 Mike C 2008-04-09 08:09:06 UTC 
Created attachment 301760 [details]
Screen showing output immediately after plugging in usb adapter

Following #1 this is the screen a few seconds after logging in to KDE, then
switching to an alternative console and logging in as root, and setting up to
print diagnostics. After 20 seconds more text appears on the screen and the
next image shows the further lines output.
Comment 3 Mike C 2008-04-09 08:10:22 UTC 
Created attachment 301761 [details]
Screen about 20 seconds after image in previous attachment

About 20 seconds later there are further lines.
Comment 4 Mike C 2008-04-09 21:36:18 UTC 
Created attachment 301900 [details]
printk captured via netconsole (equivalent to images above)

I managed to get a capture on a second machine on the same network using
netconsole. Here is the capture.
Comment 5 John W. Linville 2008-04-15 20:37:39 UTC 
A patch to correct this should be available in 
kernel-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9 or later...probably available tomorrow or the 
next day...FYI! :-)
Comment 7 Mike C 2008-04-16 09:40:56 UTC 
Thanks John - will test this later today or tomorrow.... and report back.
Comment 8 Mike C 2008-04-16 10:37:22 UTC 
kernel-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9 resolves this bug and wireless now works nicely
again. This bug can now be closed. Thanks for working on this.