Comment 34 for bug 37773

Hi,

I can report similar random lockups related to the madwifi driver. My card is a 3com 3cRPAG175 which (although lspci doesn't mention atheros) actually use the ath*/madwifi modules. Here's my lspci (both -v and -n):

# lspci -v
....
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3CRPAG175 Wireless PC Card (rev 01)
        Subsystem: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 1026
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
        Memory at 34000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

# lspci -n
...
0000:03:00.0 0200: a727:0013 (rev 01)

This started (as with most/all the above reports) rather immediately after upgrading from the rock-solid Breezy to the rather less than solid Dapper. Sigh.

I'm quite convinced this is due to something very specific to the madwifi driver (similar sysrq stuff as reported above). I will try the patches posted above next and will, of course, report back with my progress.

If madwifi-ng doesn't help, I suppose I'll have to get a new card (it's pretty poor, as wlan cards go, anyway).

-- Glenn