On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Tomas, > >>>> so besides the point that the Ubuntu 8.10 kernel has a broken driver for >>>> the Intel 4965 cards which will crash my X61 after less than one minute >>>> uptime when it connects to my access point, I have my dmesg full with >>>> warnings from the latest wireless-testing kernel. >>>> >>>> I know that we have discussed this before and Johannes' patch at least >>>> turns it into warnings instead of killing my system completely, but I am >>>> still surprised why this hasn't been fixed. >>> >>> so this becomes more and more annoying. I get this WARN_ON now multiple >>> times pre minute. Only the first few minutes after loading the firmware >>> everything is okay and then it keeps filling my dmesg. And on top of >>> that, I >>> now see these: >>> >>> __ratelimit: 1189 callbacks suppressed >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> __ratelimit: 57695 callbacks suppressed >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> __ratelimit: 3345 callbacks suppressed >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> iwlagn: Can not allocate SKB buffers >>> >>> What is going on here? This is a normal setup and nothing fancy. Access >>> point is N-Capable from D-Link btw. >> >> >> I have D-Link too I don't see this. What kernel version is this? Is >> this your ubuntu version or wireless-testing? >> Any more data you can provide (.config. slabinfo) > > this is from wireless-testing. The Ubuntu 2.6.27 kernel is totally broken. > It will crash the kernel since we are missing the patch to turn this into a > warning :) > > Attached is my config. The slabinfo will follow once the SKB errors come up > again. It normally takes a few hours before they show. Just resumed that > machine. I've downloaded whole moblin last night over 2.6.27.4, it's a bit slow because the missing calibrations but it didn't crashed. I will test your config, your machine is T61 am I right? Tomas -- 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
