Hello, I own a Thinkpad Edge 13 (AMD, machine type 0197) laptop, which is shipped with a Realtek 8192 SE WLAN card. The WLAN support with this particular card was never brilliant under Linux, first with (very) flakey drivers from Realtek which would stop transmitting packets every so often or panic after a few hours of usage. The in-tree drivers are better in this respect, but I'm experiencing mysterious hangups every once in a while. The machine is effectively dead and has to be power-cycled — no oops, no kernel panic, no nothing, it just hangs and that's it. I'm sure this is not a regression because the hangups were right there from the start. The last meaningful message which might be helpful was: "wait for BIT(6) return value X" (I don't remember what X was, it was a while ago and only once). I don't know if there are other means to debug (netconsole over eth0?) those hangs. The only other thing I know for sure that I can get a week long uptime if I blacklist rtl8192se.ko from loading. If I can provide any additional information to track the bug (or a faulty piece of hardware?) down, please tell me. Google tells me nobody reported this before, or it was just me feeding incorrect keywords. Thanks for your kind attention. P. S. Tried netconsole before, got nothing to pinpoint the error. The only recurring pattern I could see in it was that almost every time the machine hanged was after ip6tables initialized, at least it was the last message in the log. P. P. S. I don't track netdev@ and linux-wireless@ lists, so please Cc: me. -- 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
