wifi/bcw43xx/ softmac Assert failure/ crashing

[oleksandr korneta]

on 02/15/2007 12:41 AM Kim Lux wrote:
> A few weeks ago my wifi went flaky.  I didn't need it at the time so I
> started using a cable connection.  About a week ago I wanted wireless
> again, so I decided to uninstall bcw43xx and install ndiswrapper.
> 
> To uninstall bcw43xx, I removed disabled the device in
> system-config-networking and then removed bc243xx with rpm -3.   I also
> did an rmmod.
> 
> Then I downloaded ndiswrapper and built it and did a make install.
> 
> Thats as far as I got.
> 
> I did not set up the wireless device in system-config-network. 
> 
> Anyway, now lately my computer is freezing.  If I do an alt-del-f6 and
> bring up a text terminal, I see the following:
> 
> Printk: 19 messages suppressed.
> SoftMAC: Assertion Failed(0) at:
> net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306
> ieee80211moftca_wx_get_rate().
> 
> How do I fix this ?
> 
> It appears that bcw43xx isn't uninstalled. 

did you try to blacklist the module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist ?

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Oleksandr Korneta

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