Bug 437237 – 2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686 and rtl8180 panic

Bug 437237 - 2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686 and rtl8180 panic

Summary:	2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686 and rtl8180 panic

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	John W. Linville
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported:	2008-03-12 23:57 EDT by Andrew Pegram
Modified:	2008-03-14 10:41 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Fixed In Version:	2.6.24.3-34.fc8
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2008-03-14 10:41:15 EDT
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The error message (2.79 KB, text/plain) 2008-03-12 23:57 EDT, Andrew Pegram	no flags	Details
screenshot (845.15 KB, image/jpeg) 2008-03-13 00:15 EDT, Andrew Pegram	no flags	Details
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Description Andrew Pegram 2008-03-12 23:57:50 EDT

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 2008-03-12 23:57:50 EDT

Created attachment 297888 [details]
The error message

Comment 2 Andrew Pegram 2008-03-13 00:15:58 EDT

Created attachment 297889 [details]
screenshot

So you can check the message text against what I saw.

Comment 3 John W. Linville 2008-03-13 11:34:40 EDT

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 10:37:09 EDT

Problem solved! Works even better than 2.6.23. Thank you for the tip.

Comment 5 John W. Linville 2008-03-14 10:41:15 EDT

Great!  How about adding some karma?

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

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