kernel bug?

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 20:19:16 UTC 2008


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Agile Aspect <agile.aspect at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi - I have a Toshiba Satellite L355D-S7815 laptop with r8108E (10/100
> Mbits/sec)
> NIC which I'm trying to get working.
>
> There's appears to be a bug in the default kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64)
> for Fedora 9:
>
>   Sep 24 09:02:22 localhost kernel: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver
> 2.2LK-NAPI loaded
>   Sep 24 09:02:22 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A]
> -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
>   Sep 24 09:02:22 localhost kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL
> pointer dereference at 0000000000000208
>
> I downloaded the r8108E driver from RealTek which I can build and
> install, but  the
> problem is I can *NOT*
>
>    rmmod r8169   (ERROR: Module in use)
>
> or
>
>    insmod r8108  (insmod: error inserting 'r8101.ko' : -1 Invalid
> module format)
>
> I am dead in the water.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

Try stopping networking first; i.e. "/etc/init.d/network stop", or
boot into runlevel 1.




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