Re: unloading WiFi modules is usually triggering kernel crash

[Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 01:54:52PM +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
>> I've noticed in the past few days a pattern: sometimes nm-applet
>> starts showing empty bars for the signal strength.
>
> RSSI reporting problem or maybe NM issue. When you change kernel to
> older or newer does this problem go away ?
>
>> Running the script:
>> sudo ifconfig wlan0 down; sleep 1
>> sudo rmmod hp_wmi; sudo rmmod iwl3945; sudo rmmod iwlegacy; sudo rmmod
>> mac80211; sudo rmmod cfg80211
>> sleep 2; sudo rmmod rfkill; sync
>> sudo modprobe rfkill; sudo modprobe cfg80211; sudo modprobe mac80211;
>> sudo modprobe iwlegacy
>> sudo modprobe iwl3945; sudo modprobe hp_wmi; sleep 1; sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
>
> I run a bit modified script (I do not have hp_wmi.ko and rfkill.ko) for few
> hours, and did not get any WARNING/crash. I used 3.5, can you check if that
> problem is also fixed on your system on 3.5 or newer.

On 3.5.2-3.fc17.i686.PAE everything seems stable. The problem I had
described hasn't happened recently.
I guess it got fixed in the meantime.

Thank you for your time,
-- 
Pedro