Larry Finger wrote: > A few weeks ago, I was trying to help an inexperienced user on the openSUSE > Wireless Forum who was having "crashes" caused by his AR9285 device. The crash > turned out to be a kernel panic. As expected, I was not able to help him, and I > ordered one of these cards through E-bay. It just arrived, and I am able to > duplicate the panics. For me, they occur when changing from a WPA2-encrypted AP > to one with WPA encryption. When switching from WPA2 to WEP, the NULL > dereference does not occur; however, the connection fails. > > I captured enough info from the debugging console to know that the panic results > from "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)" that > originates at ath_tx_start+0x2c0/0x4b0. The kernel is x86_64 and I am currently > testing kernel v3.4-rc1-214-g1ac7a92 from Linus's tree. I have not yet tested > the wireless-testing tree, but I do not see any commits there that appear to > address this issue. Should be fixed by this patch: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=133282325727326&w=2 Sujith -- 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
