kernel oops with iwconfig wlan0

[Jonathan Baron]

I don't know if this is the place to report this, or whether I
should report it at all.  Please ignore this message if it is
inappropriate.

The command was
iwconfig wlan0 key 1234567890
I was trying to get my Broadcom BCM94306 802.11b/g wireless card
working with a Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B hub.
I'm very close, but I'm about to give up!  (I think the problem
is that the hub requires encryptation, which is why I tried this
command.)

Afterward, the only way to reboot was to unplug the AC connection
and remove the battery.

Here is the record from messages

May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fef18e10
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel:  printing eip:
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: 428be363
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: *pde = 00000000
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: SMP 
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: CPU:    0
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: EIP:    0060:[<428be363>]    Tainted: P  
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: EFLAGS: 00210202   (2.6.5-1.358smp) 
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: EIP is at ndis_set_wep+0xa2/0x157 [ndiswrapper]
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: eax: 00000005   ebx: 3ff2a220   ecx: 00000001   edx: 00000005
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: esi: fef18e10   edi: 2dc5bed0   ebp: 3ff2a000   esp: 2dc5beac
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: Process iwconfig (pid: 2922, threadinfo=2dc5b000 task=300c21b0)
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: Stack: 2c2a8067 03585500 02140c53 00000005 00000005 00000e10 0000002c 80000000 
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel:        00000005 03585500 39e11080 00000000 395fc8c1 fef18e15 00000005 fef18e10 
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel:        395fc8bc 00008b2a 022ad5f8 00000001 2dc5bf44 00008b2a 02258de4 395fc8bc 
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: Call Trace:
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel:  [<02140c53>] follow_page+0x128/0x134
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel:  [<02258de4>] wireless_process_ioctl+0x2bf/0x59a
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel:  [<428be2c1>] ndis_set_wep+0x0/0x157 [ndiswrapper]
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel:  [<022516b9>] dev_ioctl+0x266/0x29b
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel:  [<02249cbd>] sock_ioctl+0x5e/0x2a7
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel:  [<021441a4>] do_brk+0x1aa/0x1d5
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel:  [<0215d98a>] sys_ioctl+0x207/0x243
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: 
May 12 10:14:51 delli kernel: Code: f3 a5 a8 02 74 02 66 a5 a8 01 74 01 a4 8d 44 24 04 ba 13 01 


-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page:            http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron