Wireless question in F7

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 22:57 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> mac80211 will be included alongside the existing upstream ieee80211
> stuff (which isn't really a 'stack', more a library).

Is there a way to turn this off via grub for the anaconda install? I get
a NULL dereference in the iwlwifi driver (that gets autoloaded as I have
internal ipw3945 wireless hardware) which deadlocks my system.

Oops attached for reference, although it's already in bugzilla.

Richard.

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Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  printing eip:
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: c043512e
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: *pde = 5cc60067
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: SMP 
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: last sysfs file: /block/sda/sda6/stat
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: Modules linked in: cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_conservative rfcomm l2cap xt_tcpudp ip6t_REJECT ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables dm_mirror dm_multipath dm_mod video sbs i2c_ec button dock battery asus_acpi ac ipv6 parport_pc lp parport arc4 ecb blkcipher 8139cp serio_raw rtc_cmos zd1211rw_mac80211 i2c_i801 rtc_core hci_usb rtc_lib 8139too fw_ohci sdhci mmc_core bluetooth i2c_core mii fw_core pcspkr snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss iwlwifi snd_seq_midi_event mac80211 snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm iTCO_wdt snd_timer iTCO_vendor_support cfg80211 snd soundcore snd_page_alloc sr_mod cdrom sg joydev ata_piix ata_generic libata sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd mbcache ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: CPU:    0
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: EIP:    0060:[<c043512e>]    Not tainted VLI
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.20-1.3023.fc7 #1)
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: EIP is at queue_work+0x24/0x4d
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: eax: 00000008   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000000   edx: c2503078
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: esi: 00000000   edi: c25002e0   ebp: c2498cfc   esp: c2498cf4
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan1/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful.  Connected to access point 'x641'. 
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   fs: 00d8  gs: 0000  ss: 0068
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan1) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled. 
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: Process events/0 (pid: 8, ti=c2498000 task=c2494030 task.ti=c2498000)
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan1) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) started... 
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: Stack: c25011e0 f7f6a13c c2498d1c f8a36d5b f561b654 c2498d1c f8a0d0f2 f75791f8 
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:        f7f6a13c c25002e0 c2498e1c f8a0f85c f7f6a13c f70ab000 f8a17e5e 00000000 
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:        00000011 00000095 00000019 000000a7 0000004c 00000421 00000000 00000001 
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<c04061d9>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0406289>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9b/0xa3
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0406449>] show_registers+0x1b8/0x289
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0406647>] die+0x12d/0x242
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0616c36>] do_page_fault+0x3ee/0x4ba
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<c06153cc>] error_code+0x7c/0x84
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<f8a36d5b>] ipw_rate_scale_rate_init+0xda/0xe2 [iwlwifi]
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<f8a0f85c>] ieee80211_rx_mgmt_assoc_resp+0x571/0x5cb [mac80211]
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<f8a107cd>] ieee80211_sta_work+0x99e/0x1482 [mac80211]
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0434f7f>] run_workqueue+0x89/0x14e
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0435995>] worker_thread+0xf8/0x124
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<c043816f>] kthread+0xb3/0xdc
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0405cc3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel:  =======================
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: Code: 72 ff ff ff 5b 5d c3 55 89 c1 89 e5 56 53 64 8b 35 04 00 00 00 f0 0f ba 2a 00 19 c0 31 db 85 c0 75 2c 8b 1d a8 06 7f c0 8d 41 08 <39> 41 08 8d 42 04 0f 45 de 39 42 04 74 04 0f 0b eb fe 8b 01 f7 
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: EIP: [<c043512e>] queue_work+0x24/0x4d SS:ESP 0068:c2498cf4
Mar 28 17:47:05 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan1: link becomes ready