Description of problem: - Using the wifi-card while bootup freezes the system while launching NetworkManager - OOpses will be generated, if the wifi-card is inserted after a login, no further interaction with the system is possible in GUI Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernel: Linux neo 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 #1 SMP Tue Feb 26 14:58:29 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU /Linux NetworkManager: NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8 NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8 Chipset included: rt61pci (Driver Used, is a ra25xx Chipset) How reproducible: - boot with card inserted - wait for freeze ...always repoducible Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Actual results: frozen system, or no interaction possible in gnome Expected results: working wifi-connection Additional info: see added kernel-dump
Created attachment 297375 [details] dmesg - output after crash when card is NOT inserted while booting
In my cases the system usually freezes after some time (very random) and only a couple of times it freezed during boot. In both cases the only solution is an hard restart.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 436627 ***