Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262458AbVCXPGJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:06:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262517AbVCXPGJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:06:09 -0500 Received: from bay10-f3.bay10.hotmail.com ([64.4.37.3]:43627 "EHLO hotmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262458AbVCXPFu (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:05:50 -0500 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [61.246.101.86] X-Originating-Email: [agovinda04@hotmail.com] From: "govind raj" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Kernel crash problem and Madwifi Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:35:49 +0530 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Mar 2005 15:05:49.0559 (UTC) FILETIME=[F6DE9070:01C53082] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5132 Lines: 146 Hi all, kernel version:2.4.29 board :net4521 wireless card : Atheros-5212 diriver madwifi-cvs-current.tar.bz2(v 1.30 2005/02/22) I built the customized image from 2.4.29 and booted from this image The following sequence restarts the board insmod wlan insmod wlan_wep insmod ath_rate-onoe insmod ath_hal insmod ath_pci xchanmode=0 ifup ath0 ifdown ath0 The board and Atheros work fine up to this point. After this once we give the command ifup ath0 the system printed error message ___________________________________________________________________________ Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e49aac30 printing eip: c4878019 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[] Tainted: P EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: 0804ab74 ebx: c3d76000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: c3d76000 edi: c3d76348 ebp: c3d76000 esp: c3c09ed0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process ifconfig (pid: 116, stackpage=c3c09000) Stack: 0804ab74 c3d7615c 00000000 c3c54000 0804ab74 c3d76000 00000000 00001043 00000000 c01a5484 c3d76000 c3d76000 00001002 c01a66c1 c3d76000 c3c09f54 c3c09f59 c3c2b144 bffffa10 c01dd219 c3d76000 00001043 00000000 00000000 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: 8b 3c 85 60 fe 87 c4 57 55 68 20 f3 87 c4 e8 34 d5 89 fb c7 _______________________________________________________________________________ bash-2.05a# my dmesg output ___________________________________________________________________________________ bash-2.05a# dmesg BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000004000000 (usable) 64MB LOWMEM available. Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: hda1 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. hda: hda1 hda: hda1 Freeing unused kernel memory: 260k freed EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: busy inodes on changed media. natsemi dp8381x driver, version 1.07+LK1.0.17, Sep 27, 2002 originally by Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html 2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder eth%d: EEPROM did not reload in 20000 usec. eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xc4809000, 00:00:24:c2:0e:f8, IRQ 5. eth%d: EEPROM did not reload in 20000 usec. eth1: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xc480b000, 00:00:24:c2:0e:f9, IRQ 9. ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_conntrack version 2.1 (512 buckets, 4096 max) - 288 bytes per conntrack eth0: link up. eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability. wlan: 0.8.4.5 (EXPERIMENTAL) ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413) ath_rate_onoe: 1.0 ath_pci: 0.9.4.12 (EXPERIMENTAL) ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps ath0: turbo rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3 ath0: 802.11 address: 00:02:6f:20:f9:ae ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BE traffic ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BK traffic ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xa0000000, irq=10 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e49aac30 printing eip: c4878019 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[] Tainted: P EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: 0804ab74 ebx: c3d76000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: c3d76000 edi: c3d76348 ebp: c3d76000 esp: c3c09ed0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process ifconfig (pid: 116, stackpage=c3c09000) Stack: 0804ab74 c3d7615c 00000000 c3c54000 0804ab74 c3d76000 00000000 00001043 00000000 c01a5484 c3d76000 c3d76000 00001002 c01a66c1 c3d76000 c3c09f54 c3c09f59 c3c2b144 bffffa10 c01dd219 c3d76000 00001043 00000000 00000000 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: 8b 3c 85 60 fe 87 c4 57 55 68 20 f3 87 c4 e8 34 d5 89 fb c7 __________________________________________________________________________________ Has any one faced this problem before? What could be the possible cause? Thanks in advance Govind _________________________________________________________________ News, views and gossip. http://www.msn.co.in/Cinema/ Get it all at MSN Cinema! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/