Hi again. On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Chris Clayton wrote: > Hi, I've now got the part of the panic message that doesn't scroll off-screen: [<c01f870e>] acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0xc1/0x387 [<c020757d>] acpi_ps_get_arguments+0xa9+0x12d [<c0207b3a>] acpi_ps_parse_loop+0x259/0x2b7 [<c0207052>] acpi_ps_parse_aml_walk+0xb3/0x10e [<c02080e3>] acpi_ds_init_aml_walk+0xb3/0c10e [<c02080e3>] acpi_ps_execute_method+0xaf/0xe5 [<c020530b>] acpi_ns_evaluate+0x97/0xec [<c0204c66>] acpi_evaluate_object+0x136/0x1da [<c01f6ebd>] acpi_evaluate_integer+0x7a/0xb8 [<c0217a81>] acpi_thermal_get_temprature+0x29/0x3d [<c0218498>] acpi_thermal_temp_seq_show+0x15/0x58 [<c017d27a>] seq_read+0xda/0x2a0 [<c017d1a0>] seq_read+0x0/0x2a0 [<c01943ac>] proc_reg_read+0x9c/0xb0 [<c016359c>] vfs_read+0x9c/0xd0 [<c01637e7>] sys_read+0x47/0x80 [<c010414a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb ======================= Code: 00 00 00 e9 6c ff ff ff 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bf 00 00 00 00 55 89 cd 57 56 53 83 ec 10 89 d3 89 44 24 08 ba 20 00 00 00 8b 40 58 <89> 42 14 a1 10 66 3e c0 e8 bc 89 83 df 89 44 24 0c 85 c0 89 c7 EIP: [<e0927eb7>] ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe+0x17/0x120 [mac80211] SS:ESP 0068: c042ff4c Kernel panic - not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt Hope this helps. Feel free to send me any patches that might fix or help diagnose. Chris > > Firstly, I'm not subscribed, so please cc me into any reply. > > I've found that I can cause my laptop (DEll Latitude C610) to crash silently > (other than blinking LEDs) with stock 2.6.24-rc8{,-git2,-git3,-git4} kernels. > I suspect the problem is related to the rt61pci driver, so I've cc'd > linux-wireless. > > All I have to do to cause the crash is run the following script on the laptop > > #!/bin/sh > for i in `seq 1 100`; do > echo $i > itercount > rm -f linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2 > wget ftp://192.168.1.10/pub/linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2 > done > > The crash will occur usually during the first iteration (and often in the > first 12 megabytes), but never later than the second. > > I suspect the rt61pci driver because if I down wlan0 and connect to my network > via eth0, the laptop never crashes (and I've let it run for 50 or so > iterations). Similarly, if I build and install -git4 without the in-tree > rt61pci driver and build and install the out-of-tree rt61 driver from > serialmonkey.com (20071117 snapshot), the script runs fine, although I admit > that I stopped it after eight iterations. > > My config, the output, from lspci -vv and the contents of syslog from a crash > are attached. The wireless adapter is a Belkin F5D7010. > > Other than maybe a little later on tonight, I won't have much time to give > this further attention over the next couple of days, but I thought it best to > give a heads-up now. > > Thanks in advance > > Chris > -- Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy - Benjamin Franklin - 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