Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 Version: 2.6.18-7 Severity: important I have a laptop, and an Asus Wifi card. lspci says this: 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
When inserted, the bcm43xx module is loaded. This card sometimes looses the network signal. When this happens, I usually do an ifdown eth2; ifup eth2, and the card gets a new connection, and new IP address. With linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 installed this no longer works. When I run ifdown eth2, the processor starts to work like hell. When in X, I cannot move the pointer, cannot type anything, so there is only one thing I can do: turn off the machine, losing all my work, fsck at next boot, etc. Very annoying. So at the end I found out that 'rmmod bcm43xx' does not return, and it just causes 100% system CPU usage. Intresting thing in the logs when inserting the module: Dec 25 22:15:06 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (bcm43xx_status(bcm) == BCM43xx_STAT_INITIALIZED) at: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1865:bcm43xx_interrupt_handler() When card was removed after the lost connection Dec 26 00:13:53 localhost kernel: pccard: card ejected from slot 0 Dec 26 00:14:00 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (!err) at: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:4015:bcm43xx_net_stop() With 2.6.17-2-686 the module can be removed, and the card can be reconfigured. So now I don't dare to use 2.6.18-3-686 anymore, 5 freezes in 2 days were enough. Regards, Gabor -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (499, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 depends on: ii coreutils 5.97-5 The GNU core utilities ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.8 Debian configuration management sy ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.85c tools for generating an initramfs ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre3-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 recommends: ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i -- debconf information: shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-3-686: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-3-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-3-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-3-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-3-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-3-686: false linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-3-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-3-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-3-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-3-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-3-686: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-3-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-3-686: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-3-686: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-3-686: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-3-686: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-3-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-3-686: false linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-3-686: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
