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Cape

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From: Mogliano Veneto, Italy

Registered: 2008-11-15

Posts: 105

EeePc 900HD - Kernel panic when bringing down wlan0 with Function Key

Hi everybody!
I'm experiencing this hitchy problem with this newly "purified" netbook (purified means i got rid of windrlors ). I'm a bit stuck, because i don't see anything on the logs ecc... since... well it panics out...
Basically, when i boot up, the wlan interface is always down. I can easily bring it up with the function key and  of course i can disable it with NM or iwconfig, BUT if i press again the FK to shut it down, the kernel panics out and X freezes badly. I can tell it's a kernel panic because the battery led starts blinking...

I'm runnig the stock kernel with acpid running.
lsmod out:

Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  236510  8 
aes_i586                6884  2 
aes_generic            25838  1 aes_i586
r8187se               156996  0 
eeprom_93cx6             988  1 r8187se
fuse                   51934  3 
reiserfs              224323  1 
ext2                   55291  1 
mbcache                 4282  1 ext2
snd_seq_dummy           1071  0 
snd_seq_oss            25016  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      4488  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                41656  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          4353  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
joydev                  7503  0 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   192115  1 
uvcvideo               52932  0 
snd_pcm_oss            33474  0 
snd_hda_intel          18769  3 
videodev               34643  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat            13482  2 uvcvideo,videodev
snd_mixer_oss          14328  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_codec          66623  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               4756  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                58460  4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              15601  3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
eeepc_laptop           12001  0 
iTCO_wdt                8637  0 
iTCO_vendor_support     1457  1 iTCO_wdt
sparse_keymap           2087  1 eeepc_laptop
snd                    42602  15 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
rfkill                 12394  1 eeepc_laptop
soundcore               5017  1 snd
led_class               1835  1 eeepc_laptop
uhci_hcd               19248  0 
pci_hotplug            21691  1 eeepc_laptop
ac                      2321  0 
psmouse                50897  0 
battery                 7775  0 
snd_page_alloc          5941  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
sg                     20760  0 
atl1e                  26045  0 
ehci_hcd               31918  0 
i2c_i801                7126  0 
usbcore               120469  4 uvcvideo,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
processor              25232  1 
thermal                 9746  0 
evdev                   6780  16 
serio_raw               3526  0 
rtc_cmos                7578  0 
rtc_core               11823  1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib                 1486  1 rtc_core
jfs                   161088  2 
sd_mod                 25507  7 
ahci                   31660  0 
ata_piix               17951  6 
pata_acpi               2300  0 
libata                138839  3 ahci,ata_piix,pata_acpi
scsi_mod               79372  3 sg,sd_mod,libata
i915                  261263  2 
drm_kms_helper         21512  1 i915
drm                   131562  3 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            4319  1 i915
button                  3738  1 i915
i2c_core               15144  6 videodev,i2c_i801,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
video                  15613  1 i915
output                  1440  1 video
intel_agp              23794  2 i915
agpgart                23120  2 drm,intel_agp

Also the other FKs work fine... Dunno, any ideas?

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: EeePc 900HD - Kernel panic when bringing down wlan0 with Function Key

I assume you run X while trying this, which is probably why you don't see the actual kernel-panic. That message would be quite useful though, so I would boot into single-user mode, maybe tail some logfiles, and then perform the operation that causes the panic. When you have the actual message, it should be easier to fix!

Last edited by Spider.007 (2010-08-21 08:04:33)

Cape

Member

From: Mogliano Veneto, Italy

Registered: 2008-11-15

Posts: 105

Re: EeePc 900HD - Kernel panic when bringing down wlan0 with Function Key

Nope... seems it's a long time known/unresolved bug in the kernel. Somebody made a kernel patch, but it wasn't accepted upstream, and now is too old.

Too bad.

Well for the moment, do somebody know of a  way to disable this acpi event?