[driverloader] Fedora core kernel crashes.

[David]

Hello Ian,

I had this exact problem on my HP/Compaq NX7000. None of the updated
Fedora kernels would work either.

The only way I could fix it was to download vanilla kernel sources from
kernel.org and compiling from them. Importing the config from /boot with
the Fedora defaults worked just fine - in fact, things like ACPI which
were a bit flaky before are considerably better with a stock 2.4.25
kernel. It does mean you have to recompile the Driverloader module from
source, but that worked fine for me.

Feel free to get in touch if I can help further!

David

> 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/
>
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