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Bug#404629: marked as done (linux-image-2.6.18-3-686: ifdown bcm43xx interface causes system to freeze)

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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:

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 2.6.24-1

bcm43xx has been replaced by b43,
which is said to behave better.

if not please holler loudly.

-- 
maks

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