Bug#510439: linux-image-2.6-amd64: page allocation failure for iwl4965

[Kristof Provost <kristof@sigsegv.be>]

On 2010-02-21 23:21:47 (+0100), Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:13:07PM +0100, Kristof Provost wrote:
> > Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64
> > Version: 2.6.26+17
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Doing 'ifconfig wlan0 up', where wlan0 is an iwl4965 interface
> > sometimes causes an allocation failure. 
> > 
> > I don't see a clear pattern in the occurences. Once the problem has
> > occured the interface is unusable, even if the module is
> > unloaded/reloaded.
> > 
> > The system is a Thinkpad T61 (Intel Core 2 Duo).
> 
> Hi,
> The next release of Debian (6.0, code name Squeeze) will be based
> on 2.6.32. Please test the current 2.6.32 from unstable/testing and tell
> us whether the problem persists. If so, we should report it upstream
> to the kernel.org developers.
> 
> The 2.6.32 kernel is available from packages.debian.org and can
> be installed in both Debian stable, testing and unstable
> installations.
> 

I've been unable to reproduce the problem on 2.6.32.

Regards,
Kristof