Re: Fixing rt2500pci

From: Peter Chubb
Date: Tue Aug 05 2008 - 17:02:10 EST


>>>>> "Ivo" == Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Ivo> On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Peter Chubb wrote:
>> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Chubb <peterc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
Peter> Ther appears to be another problem in here somewhere. Every
Peter> now and then I get a general protect fault with this card and
Peter> 2.6.27-rc1. This is on an AMD64 box. I'm not sure I entirely
Peter> believe the stack backtrace.
>> I recompiled with frame pointers. Here's another trace. i believe
>> this one :-) This is 2.6.27-rc1 as of 4/8/2008 with my patch
>> applied

Ivo> I am still not completely happy with the trace, but it at least
Ivo> points a bit clearer to the source of the problem.

You have to ignore the symbols with a question mark.

Ivo> Are you running rt2500pci in managed or adhoc mode? And when
Ivo> does this bug trigger, when authenticating, associating,
Ivo> deauthentication or random?

Managed; WEP; the bug triggers at random some time after associating.

Ivo> Also could you post some of the rt2500/mac80211 debug messages
Ivo> from the log from before the actual bug?

Will do -- later today. I dropped back to 2.6.26-rc9 to do real work :-)
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