> > A very peculiar bug. > > > > With compat-wireless from 16.05 a nasty bug started to > manifest itself. Right around association time, the > rt2800usb causes kernel panic. The system freezes and the > Caps Lock and Num Lock leds on the keyboard begin to flash. > > also ath9k, iwlagn. > > > > > Unfortunately there are no recoverable traces after > the system failure to aid this bug report or to indicate its > origin. > > > > I believe it may somehow be related to Ubuntu's > network-manager. If I turn off the network-manager service, > I can go into monitor mode for example, but if > network-manager is running and I plug my USB dongle, it > starts to associate, a second or two later the system is in > complete meltdown. > > same thing, monitor mode worked perfectly fine. > > > > > Nothing concrete, but a hunch is telling me this has > something to do with the association mechanism of the > rt2800usb. Compat-wireless from few days back exhibits no > such foul play. > > yes just right at the association complete freeze. > That's strange. I wonder what's the connection with this bug and network-manager. Because when I manually tried to associate, dmesg reported the association attempt timed out. Walter -- 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