I had a similar problem with this Wifi controller:

05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection (rev 02)

this kernel version:

ii  linux-image-2.6.28-12-generic                           2.6.28-12.43
Linux kernel image for version 2.6.28 on x86/x86_64

and this NM version:

ii  network-manager
0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2                   network management
framework daemon

What's interesting is that my kernel is not tainted by non-free drivers:

May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286302] NetworkManager: page allocation 
failure. order:5, mode:0x8020
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286311] Pid: 3871, comm: NetworkManager 
Not tainted 2.6.28-12-generic #43-Ubuntu
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286316] Call Trace:
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286330]  [<c04fca36>] ? printk+0x18/0x1a
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286340]  [<c0194287>] 
__alloc_pages_internal+0x387/0x490
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286349]  [<c01087d3>] 
dma_generic_alloc_coherent+0x73/0xe0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286356]  [<c0108760>] ? 
dma_generic_alloc_coherent+0x0/0xe0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286385]  [<f7ed9eb3>] 
iwl3945_tx_queue_init+0x1d3/0x2b0 [iwl3945]
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286401]  [<f7ee45c8>] 
iwl3945_hw_nic_init+0x3e8/0x470 [iwl3945]
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286417]  [<f7edd032>] 
__iwl3945_up+0x92/0x270 [iwl3945]
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286423]  [<c0102ab7>] ? 
__switch_to+0xb7/0x1a0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286438]  [<f7ee01e0>] 
iwl3945_mac_start+0x50/0x1c0 [iwl3945]
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286449]  [<c02ca4ed>] ? 
rb_erase+0xcd/0x150
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286477]  [<f7f1710a>] 
ieee80211_open+0x32a/0x830 [mac80211]
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286485]  [<c0152a0a>] ? 
hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x3a/0x90
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286493]  [<c04fddc9>] ? 
schedule_hrtimeout_range+0xe9/0x150
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286501]  [<c0430e42>] dev_open+0xa2/0xe0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286507]  [<c04fee71>] ? 
_spin_unlock_bh+0x11/0x20
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286514]  [<c043027a>] ? 
dev_set_rx_mode+0x2a/0x40
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286521]  [<c04304f1>] 
dev_change_flags+0x131/0x1c0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286528]  [<c043933d>] 
do_setlink+0x1ed/0x3a0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286536]  [<c044ac13>] ? 
nla_reserve+0x43/0x60
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286542]  [<c0438c3f>] ? 
rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0x2cf/0x3b0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286549]  [<c04395d1>] 
rtnl_setlink+0xe1/0x120
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286556]  [<c0449d80>] ? 
netlink_dump_start+0x130/0x170
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286563]  [<c04394f0>] ? 
rtnl_setlink+0x0/0x120
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286569]  [<c0438725>] 
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x165/0x200
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286575]  [<c0438d20>] ? 
rtnl_dump_ifinfo+0x0/0xa0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286581]  [<c04385c0>] ? 
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x0/0x200
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286588]  [<c0449c26>] 
netlink_rcv_skb+0x76/0xa0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286594]  [<c04385ac>] 
rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x30
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286601]  [<c04493ad>] 
netlink_unicast+0x25d/0x290
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286608]  [<c044a42b>] 
netlink_sendmsg+0x1cb/0x2b0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286616]  [<c0422d7a>] 
sock_sendmsg+0xea/0x110
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286623]  [<c02a8490>] ? 
apparmor_socket_recvmsg+0x10/0x20
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286632]  [<c014ecb0>] ? 
autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286639]  [<c014ecb0>] ? 
autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286646]  [<c02cd4b5>] ? 
copy_from_user+0x35/0x130
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286652]  [<c042a210>] ? 
verify_iovec+0x30/0xb0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286659]  [<c0422eb1>] 
sys_sendmsg+0x111/0x230
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286665]  [<c04230d4>] ? 
sys_sendto+0xb4/0xd0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286672]  [<c042ecad>] ? 
__dev_get_by_name+0x7d/0xa0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286678]  [<c02cd5e6>] ? 
copy_to_user+0x36/0x120
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286684]  [<c0420f80>] ? 
sock_destroy_inode+0x10/0x20
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286691]  [<c01cfe0a>] ? 
destroy_inode+0x2a/0x50
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286698]  [<c01d07be>] ? 
generic_forget_inode+0x17e/0x1f0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286705]  [<c0423665>] 
sys_socketcall+0xd5/0x2b0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286712]  [<c01bb559>] ? 
filp_close+0x49/0x70
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286718]  [<c01bb5fa>] ? 
sys_close+0x7a/0xc0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286725]  [<c0103f6b>] 
sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x2f
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286729] Mem-Info:
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286733] DMA per-cpu:
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286737] CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 
usd:   0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286741] CPU    1: hi:    0, btch:   1 
usd:   0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286745] Normal per-cpu:
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286749] CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 
usd: 159
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286753] CPU    1: hi:  186, btch:  31 
usd: 153
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286757] HighMem per-cpu:
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286761] CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 
usd: 127
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286765] CPU    1: hi:  186, btch:  31 
usd: 101
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286773] Active_anon:136302 
active_file:72463 inactive_anon:72688
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286775]  inactive_file:98910 
unevictable:724 dirty:268 writeback:0 unstable:0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286778]  free:54153 slab:63741 
mapped:29813 pagetables:3158 bounce:0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286787] DMA free:3540kB min:64kB 
low:80kB high:96kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:16kB active_file:4392kB 
inactive_file:88kB unevictable:0kB present:15760kB pages_scanned:0 
all_unreclaimable? no
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286794] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 861 2014 
2014
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286808] Normal free:37388kB min:3720kB 
low:4648kB high:5580kB active_anon:88492kB inactive_anon:124568kB 
active_file:147904kB inactive_file:162160kB unevictable:0kB present:881880kB 
pages_scanned:48 all_unreclaimable? no
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286815] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 9227 9227
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286828] HighMem free:175684kB min:512kB 
low:1756kB high:3004kB active_anon:456716kB inactive_anon:166168kB 
active_file:137556kB inactive_file:233392kB unevictable:2896kB 
present:1181104kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286836] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286844] DMA: 3*4kB 3*8kB 9*16kB 5*32kB 
2*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3540kB
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286865] Normal: 4379*4kB 1919*8kB 
250*16kB 9*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 
37348kB
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286885] HighMem: 191*4kB 9215*8kB 
5581*16kB 352*32kB 4*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 
175684kB
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286906] 179488 total pagecache pages
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286910] 6031 pages in swap cache
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286914] Swap cache stats: add 49187, 
delete 43155, find 78925/80010
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286919] Free swap  = 2829672kB
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.286922] Total swap = 2972016kB
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.305951] 523904 pages RAM
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.305955] 297602 pages HighMem
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.305958] 16993 pages reserved
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.305961] 283167 pages shared
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.305964] 311202 pages non-shared
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.305969] iwl3945: Tx 1 queue init failed
May 19 09:04:16 vougeot kernel: [126278.305984] iwl3945: Unable to int nic
May 19 09:04:31 vougeot kernel: [126294.000161] iwl3945: Radio Frequency Kill 
Switch is On:
May 19 09:04:31 vougeot kernel: [126294.000166] Kill switch must be turned off 
for wireless networking to work.


** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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iwlagn - call trace NetworkManager: page allocation failure. order:5, 
mode:0x8020
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343323
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