@Peter, Good, that verifies that suspicion. The whole change was to prevent any 
allocation during the lifetime of the module. The problem could well be related 
  with the graphics. This would also make the facts that not all with an ip2200 
adapter see this problem and that the problem appeared without changes to the 
wireless adapter.
The problem could be both, exhaustion or fragmentation. The original code in 
the ipw driver needs to allocate 6 consecutive pages of low memory. So either 
there is nothing left of just no area big enough.
Although this might be related to changes somewhere else, there seem to be to 
cases of this. One seems to be related to suspend/resume where the firmware 
load initially fails, but can be done later by unloading and loading the 
modules. The other case (which interestingly seems to have no active reporters 
anymore) needed a reboot to get out of it.
So yes, the could likely be a relation between i915 and this. There must be 
some cleanup or release now, just too late to get the wireless driver succeed 
with the limited retries it has. Now the question would be whether it makes 
sense to fortify the wireless driver against resource shortage or not...

-- 
ipw2200 page allocation fault - no wlan until reboot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363150
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

Reply via email to