Re: PROBLEM: oops in 2.6.21.1 after bringing up the network

[Manuel Metz <mmetz@astro.uni-bonn.de>]

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Manuel Metz wrote:
>> Brett Ryland wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I am consistently getting a kernel oops from a vanilla 2.6.21.1 kernel. It 
>>> also occurs in vanilla 2.6.21, but not in 2.6.20.8. The relevant section of 
>>> the kernel is networking, in particular the sis900 module (I think).
>>> The attached file contains the oops and the information asked for on the site 
>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reporting-bugs.html for reporting 
>>> kernel oopses. The oops fully crashes my computer and leaves the capslock and 
>>> numlock leds flashing, so the oops is transcribed by hand from a photo 
>>> (hopefully I haven't made a mistake, I do still have the photo if it's 
>>> needed).
>>>
>>> I'm not subscribed to the mailing list so please CC any questions/solutions to 
>>> me.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Nappers.
>> Hi, I have the same problem here on an ASUS laptop with sis network
>> card. The system worked fine with kernel 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 and 2.6.20.7,
>> but crashes with 2.6.21.1.
>>
> 
> Fixed by this:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=dc5a144991ba803bc8afded105c9db1dea0e57ab
> 
> Look here before reporting bugs to linux-kernel:
> http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions

As far as I can tell, it's working til now ... Thanks ...

Manuel