Daniel: in 2.6.35 (ubuntu maverick) udev loads rtl8180.ko which loads r8187se.ko (which in turn causes the panic).
Hm.... now that I have a source tree unTAR'd I see that there's something in drivers/staging/rtl8187se (this is the one that panics) and also something in drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x . The latter seems to be " a driver for RTL8180 and RTL8185 based cards" and "a driver for RTL8187 and RTL8187B based cards" which sounds interesting as the 8187se is, IIRC, a close relative of the 8185. (??? or so I read somewhere during my quest for wireless. It's impossible to navigate all those forums and the horrible realtek.com etc.) So I'm gonna give this one a shot when I get home where the laptop is. I've looked at the former (panicky) code as well; it seems to try to initialize the card 5 (#define'd) times, and the aforementioned panic results if it thinks it failed after said 5 tries (?!). If all else fails I'll try to contact the author directly and offer him testing ground. I'm afraid that the actual firmware, packaging, and who-knows- what that toshiba (and, according to the internet, MSI) put around this card matters a lot. BTW, I've tried the various "use ndiswrapper with windows X drivers downloaded from Y" recipes found in abundance over the net and none of them worked; either the card was not found or I got a different kind of kernel panic. But then again I'd much rather have a working native driver. -- rtl8187se driver causes kernel panic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/596808 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
