The same to me, only the module is r818x. It used to work for me on 2.6.17 kernel. Also because of this driver, things like sudo/ifconfig won't work as well. Here is the oops messages (and I also attached a dmesg log):
================================================ Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 43.425443] rtl8180: Bringing up iface Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 43.633639] rtl8180: Card successfully reset Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500591] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000001 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500598] printing eip: Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500600] 00000001 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500601] *pde = 00000000 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500605] Oops: 0000 [#1] Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500606] SMP Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500609] Modules linked in: ppdev cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats freq_table ac video button asus_acpi container sbs i2c_ec battery dock backlight parport_pc lp parport snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm tsdev snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_mpu401 snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi r818x ieee80211_rtl ide_cd cdrom snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device analog gameport floppy serio_raw i2c_nforce2 pcspkr psmouse k8temp snd soundcore snd_page_alloc shpchp pci_hotplug i2c_core amd64_agp agpgart evdev ext3 jbd mbcache sg sd_mod amd74xx generic ata_generic ehci_hcd sata_nv libata scsi_mod forcedeth ohci_hcd usbcore thermal processor fan fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor vesafb capability commoncap Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500656] CPU: 0 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500658] EIP: 0060:[_proxy_pda+1/1024] Not tainted VLI Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500659] EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.20-8-generic #2) Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500664] EIP is at 0x1 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500667] eax: f7c04000 ebx: f7c04400 ecx: 00000001 edx: 00000001 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500670] esi: f7c04c38 edi: 00001002 ebp: 00000000 esp: f7acdbdc Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500672] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500675] Process NetworkManager (pid: 4592, ti=f7acc000 task=dff5c030 task.ti=f7acc000) Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500678] Stack: f8a90416 f7c04400 f8a9092c f7c04000 f8a776d2 f8a84448 f7c04000 00001003 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500684] f8a79303 f7c04000 c027f541 f7c04000 c027dd3c f7c04000 ffffffed 00000000 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500690] dfe24810 c02870f8 00000000 c03cab20 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500695] Call Trace: Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500699] [<f8a90416>] rtl_ieee80211_start_protocol+0x46/0xe0 [ieee80211_rtl] Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500714] [<f8a9092c>] rtl_ieee80211_softmac_start_protocol+0x2c/0x50 [ieee80211_rtl] Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500728] [<f8a776d2>] _rtl8180_up+0x42/0x50 [r818x] Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500745] [<f8a79303>] rtl8180_open+0x23/0x40 [r818x] Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500756] [dev_open+49/112] dev_open+0x31/0x70 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500765] [dev_change_flags+252/304] dev_change_flags+0xfc/0x130 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500779] [rtnl_setlink+1000/1104] rtnl_setlink+0x3e8/0x450 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500853] [rtnl_setlink+0/1104] rtnl_setlink+0x0/0x450 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500860] [rtnetlink_rcv_msg+363/592] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x16b/0x250 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500882] [rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0/592] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x0/0x250 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500888] [netlink_run_queue+130/288] netlink_run_queue+0x82/0x120 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500907] [rtnetlink_rcv+40/80] rtnetlink_rcv+0x28/0x50 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500917] [netlink_data_ready+18/80] netlink_data_ready+0x12/0x50 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500925] [netlink_sendskb+33/64] netlink_sendskb+0x21/0x40 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500933] [netlink_sendmsg+547/768] netlink_sendmsg+0x223/0x300 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.500976] [sock_sendmsg+274/304] sock_sendmsg+0x112/0x130 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501015] [autoremove_wake_function+0/80] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501029] [handle_fasteoi_irq+151/208] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x97/0xd0 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501042] [do_IRQ+69/128] do_IRQ+0x45/0x80 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501057] [common_interrupt+35/48] common_interrupt+0x23/0x30 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501083] [copy_from_user+41/96] copy_from_user+0x29/0x60 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501106] [sys_sendmsg+353/624] sys_sendmsg+0x161/0x270 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501150] [handle_fasteoi_irq+151/208] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x97/0xd0 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501162] [do_IRQ+69/128] do_IRQ+0x45/0x80 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501168] [find_get_page+60/96] find_get_page+0x3c/0x60 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501178] [common_interrupt+35/48] common_interrupt+0x23/0x30 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501210] [ack_ioapic_quirk_irq+64/160] ack_ioapic_quirk_irq+0x40/0xa0 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501222] [handle_fasteoi_irq+151/208] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x97/0xd0 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501234] [do_IRQ+69/128] do_IRQ+0x45/0x80 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501237] [do_IRQ+69/128] do_IRQ+0x45/0x80 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501249] [common_interrupt+35/48] common_interrupt+0x23/0x30 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501281] [sys_socketcall+591/640] sys_socketcall+0x24f/0x280 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501311] [sysenter_past_esp+105/169] sysenter_past_esp+0x69/0xa9 Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501350] ======================= Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501352] Code: Bad EIP value. Feb 25 01:07:57 home kernel: [ 44.501355] EIP: [_proxy_pda+1/1024] 0x1 SS:ESP 0068:f7acdbdc ** Attachment added: "dmesg log" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6530108/dmesg.txt -- [feisty] rtl8180 oops https://launchpad.net/bugs/78255 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs