Re: r8187se panic

From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: James Womack <james.c.womack@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8187se panic
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:24:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE29413.5090103@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ibtkeo$efc$1@dough.gmane.org>

On 11/16/2010 03:55 AM, James Womack wrote:
> On 15/11/10 23:44, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 11/15/2010 03:05 PM, James Womack wrote:
>>> On 14/11/10 20:23, Larry Finger wrote:
>>>> On 11/14/2010 12:49 PM, James Womack wrote:
>>>>> Hey, I tried patching the kernel I downloaded, but the dry runs both
>>>>> presented errors detailed below:
>>>>>
>>>>> james@mercury:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32$ patch -p1 --dry-run<
>>>>> /home/james/rtl8187se_change_panic_to_warn
>>>>> patching file drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8185b_init.c
>>>>> Hunk #1 succeeded at 356 with fuzz 2 (offset 92 lines).
>>>>> Hunk #2 FAILED at 302.
>>>>> 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
>>>>> drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8185b_init.c.rej
>>>>> james@mercury:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32$ patch -p1 --dry-run<
>>>>> /home/james/rtl8187se_
>>>>> rtl8187se_change_panic_to_warn  rtl8187se_lock_pci_remove
>>>>> james@mercury:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32$ patch -p1 --dry-run<
>>>>> /home/james/rtl8187se_lock_pci_remove
>>>>> patching file drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c
>>>>> patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
>>>>> patch: **** unexpected end of file in patch
>>>>> james@mercury:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32$
>>>>>
>>>>> Do I need to do anything to the kernel source before applying the
>>>>> patches?
>>>>
>>>> You needed a different version of the patch for 2.6.32. Apply the
>>>> attached
>>>> version. You only need the one patch.
>>>>
>>>> Larry
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I managed to compile the patched kernel. To confirm - the issue of the
>>> kernel panic occuring when Fn-F2 is used to turn off the wireless card
>>> is resolved. Thank you. I'll let you know if I notice any side effects
>>> from the patch.
>>
>> After you do the Fn-F2 sequence, there should be a stack dump in the
>> output of
>> the dmesg command. Could you please post that? With it, I should be
>> able to find
>> what is leading to the original error. It does not happen on my system.
>>
>> Larry
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> 
> Okay, I used dmesg | tail to print the last 10 lines of dmesg. Hopefully
> this is what you were asking for:
> 
> [  812.500300]  [<f81d97c1>] ? eeepc_rfkill_hotplug+0x127/0x142
> [eeepc_laptop]
> [  812.500311]  [<c116a27d>] ? acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x4c/0x57
> [  812.500320]  [<c115db60>] ? acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x1a/0x23
> [  812.500330]  [<c103fc20>] ? worker_thread+0x142/0x1c2
> [  812.500337]  [<c115db46>] ? acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x0/0x23
> [  812.500347]  [<c104289e>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x29
> [  812.500354]  [<c103fade>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x1c2
> [  812.500362]  [<c1042680>] ? kthread+0x5f/0x64
> [  812.500369]  [<c1042621>] ? kthread+0x0/0x64
> [  812.500379]  [<c1003ca7>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> [  812.700057] r8180: WW:Card reset timeout!
> [  812.908439] r8180: Freeing irq 18
> [  812.920050] r8180 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
> [  812.920056] r8180: wlan driver removed
> [  812.920058]

I need a few more than that. The sequence I want should start with the phrase
"RE|WE bits not cleared".

Larry