On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 08:38 +0200, Gallo Renato wrote: > got this expencive new acer and trying to manage it with slackware. My > first try with the kernel 2.6.20.4 was with the ipw3945.ko driver and > its daemon > > (ipw3945# ls > ipw3945-1.2.0/ ipw3945-1.2.0.tgz ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz > ipw3945d-1.7.22/ ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz > ) > > > but since sometimes it gives me this trouble: > > ipw3945: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting. > ipw3945: request scan called when driver not ready. > ipw3945: Error sending ADD_STA: time out after 500ms. > general protection fault: e290 [#1] > SMP > Modules linked in: snd_rtctimer cisco_ipsec(P) snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss > snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss > video1394 raw1394 dv1394 > eth1394 irtty_sir sir_dev irlan ircomm_tty ircomm mmc_block hci_uart > ipw3945 ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt sco rfcomm hidp bnep l2cap > lirc_mceusb2 lirc_dev nvidia(P) gspca > pcmcia snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec videodev ohci1394 snd_pcm sdhci > v4l2_common ieee1394 v4l1_compat mmc_core yenta_socket snd_timer sky2 > hci_usb 8250_pnp > rsrc_nonstatic snd irda bluetooth pcmcia_core 8250 serial_core > snd_page_alloc crc_ccitt > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0060:[<f90a375e>] Tainted: P VLI > EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.20.4 #7) > EIP is at ipw_disassociate+0x6e/0xb0 [ipw3945] > eax: 00000018 ebx: f5b74ac4 ecx: 00000018 edx: 00000246 > esi: f5b74ac4 edi: f580c840 ebp: 00000246 esp: f6219f2c > ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 > Process ipw3945/0 (pid: 1375, ti=f6218000 task=c2161a70 > task.ti=f6218000) > Stack: f5b74c10 f90a37d8 f5b760ec f5b760e8 c0137c7c 00000000 c200c380 > c2161b7c > 00000073 f580c860 f580c84c f90a37a0 f580c840 f580c854 f580c84c > f6219f98 > c0137ea7 ffffffff ffffffff 00000001 00000000 c01215c0 00010000 > 00000000 > Call Trace: > [<f90a37d8>] ipw_bg_disassociate+0x38/0x50 [ipw3945] > [<c0137c7c>] run_workqueue+0x7c/0x150 > [<f90a37a0>] ipw_bg_disassociate+0x0/0x50 [ipw3945] > [<c0137ea7>] worker_thread+0x157/0x180 > [<c01215c0>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 > [<c01215c0>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 > [<c0137d50>] worker_thread+0x0/0x180 > [<c013b774>] kthread+0xa4/0xe0 > [<c013b6d0>] kthread+0x0/0xe0 > [<c0103d87>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > ======================= > Code: 8b 88 a0 06 00 00 85 c9 75 29 83 b8 f8 05 00 00 02 74 43 8d 83 cc > 03 00 00 e8 2f ca 08 c7 89 d8 31 c9 ba f0 45 0c f9 e8 91 81 ff <ff> 5b > b8 01 00 00 00 c3 8b 80 > a4 06 00 00 e8 5f 75 0d c7 8b 03 > EIP: [<f90a375e>] ipw_disassociate+0x6e/0xb0 [ipw3945] SS:ESP > 0068:f6219f2c > azx_pcm_prepare: bufsize=0x10000, fragsize=0x1000, format=0x11 This bug is tracked here. Can you please try the patch attached in the bug? http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1248 Thanks, -yi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html