[driverloader] Fedora core kernel crashes.

[Ian Hutchinson]

Using driverloader stock distribution for Fedora core: 2.4.22-1.2174
Stock Fedora kernel

  $ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl (bhcompile at tweety.devel.redhat.com) (gcc
version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST
2004

Thinkpad T41. Centrino, with windows driver for the wireless.

Sometimes the driver will hang giving messages like this:

Apr 18 22:32:18 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0
Apr 18 22:32:18 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
Apr 18 22:32:18 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
Apr 18 22:32:19 localhost kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected
(0002)
Apr 18 22:32:19 localhost kernel: driverloader: ndisSetInformation:
802_11_ENCRY
PTION_STATUS st=FAILURE retrying..
Apr 18 22:32:19 localhost kernel: driverloader: ndisSetInformation:
802_11_ENCRY
PTION_STATUS st=FAILURE retrying..
Apr 18 22:32:20 localhost kernel: driverloader: ndisSetInformation:
802_11_ENCRY
PTION_STATUS st=FAILURE W=0 N=4
Apr 18 22:32:20 localhost kernel: driverloader: ndisSetInformation:
802_11_AUTHE
NTICATION_MODE st=FAILURE W=0 N=0
Apr 18 22:32:20 localhost kernel: driverloader: ndisSetInformation:
802_11_AUTHE
NTICATION_MODE st=FAILURE W=0 N=0
Apr 18 22:32:20 localhost kernel: eth1: Error -5 setting authentication
mode
Apr 18 22:32:22 localhost kernel: driverloader:
ndisWrapCheckForHangTimerFunc_stk: PCI-0000:02:02.0-8086:1043-8086:2551 hung,
resetting

With the older version, one could
modprobe -r driverloader
and then reinstall, and that would fix it.

With this version, however, if you try to modprobe -r driverloader, the
whole
system hangs, and has to be power cycled to restart.

Obviously this is a fairly serious bug.

Be nice if it were fixed, or else someone could tell how to avoid it.

	Ian Hutchinson
	http://www.psfc.mit.edu/people/hutch/