Bug#622833: linux-image-2.6.38-2-686: kernel panic in mac80211

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Ilguiz Latypov wrote:

> Booting panics when bringing interfaces up, including a Wi-Fi adm8211
> from drivers/net/wireless.  The stack trace mentions
> ieee80211_rx_handlers in mac80211, net_receive_skb, do_page_fault,
> bad_area_nosemaphore, no_context (from the least to the most recently
> called).

Thanks.  Was this a regression?  If you edit /etc/network/interfaces
to disable the adm8211, do the panics go away?

[...]
> 03:11.0 Network controller [0280]: ADMtek ADM8211 802.11b Wireless Interface [1317:8201] (rev 11)
[...]
> 	Kernel driver in use: adm8211

It's been a while but I don't see any relevant fixes upstream, so
results from testing a 3.2.y or newer kernel would be interesting.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan