Kernel panic with D-Link DWL-650 and linux 2.6.3

[Pavel Roskin]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Chris AtLee wrote:

> I'm running linux 2.6.3, and have grabbed the latest devel hostap
> sources from CVS.  The hostap and hostap_cs modules load with the
> follwing messages:
>
> hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
> wifi0: Interrupt, but dev not OK
> wifi0: Interrupt, but dev not OK
> wifi0: Interrupt, but dev not OK
> hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 11, io 0x0100-0x013f
> prism2_hw_init: initialized in 108 ms
> wifi0: NIC: id=0x8008 v1.0.1
> wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
> wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v0.7.6

Firmware 0.7.6 is extremely old.  The latest available version of firmware
for this card is 1.7.1.  I don't think HostAP will work properly with so
old firmware.  Notwithstanding, it shouldn't crash.

Firmware and links to documentation can be found here:
http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/firmware/

> iwconfig shows two interfaces, wifi0 and wlan0.  When I try and set an
> ip for either interface using ifconfig, I get a kernel panic (sorry,
> don't have the output handy, my machine is remote right now).
>
> Any ideas?  I'll send the panic message later (how can you get it to
> save to a file?)

See Documentation/oops-tracing.txt in Linux kernel sources.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin