Bug 437237 - 2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686 and rtl8180 panic
Summary: 2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686 and rtl8180 panic
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 8
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-13 03:57 UTC by Andrew Pegram
Modified: 2008-03-14 14:41 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.6.24.3-34.fc8
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-03-14 14:41:15 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
The error message (2.79 KB, text/plain)
2008-03-13 03:57 UTC, Andrew Pegram
no flags Details
screenshot (845.15 KB, image/jpeg)
2008-03-13 04:15 UTC, Andrew Pegram
no flags Details

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]
screenshot

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


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