r8180 and ieee80211_rtl cause total system lockup.

I added this to linux-meta because it effects ALL builds of the kernel.

merci beacoup. I have finally managed to get my wifi working again :D

The Hardy Heron Alpha2 release will be coming out soon. It will have an updated version of the kernel. It would be great if you could test with this new release and verify if this issue still exists. I'll be sure to update this report when Alpha2 is available. Thanks!

I'm opened a new task against the actively developed kernel and am closing the report against linux-source-2.6.22. Thanks!

Hardy Heron Alpha2 was recently released. It contains an updated version of the kernel. You can download and try the new Hardy Heron Alpha2 release from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-2/ . You should be able to then test the new kernel via the LiveCD. If you can, please verify if this bug still exists or not and report back your results. General information regarding the release can also be found here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/alpha2 . Thanks!

Just installed hardy alpha2... theres no .26 kernel on this CD I have.
Im trying to get the needed kernel on it then Ill try again.

On 31/12/2007, Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden> wrote:
> ** Tags removed: hardy-alpha2
>
> --
> r8180 and ieee80211_rtl cause total system lockup.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156050
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Using this kernel
linux-image-2.6.24-2-generic_2.6.24-2.4_i386.deb
I can safely say there is no rtl8180 driver at all.
So I guess its been resolved in a crude and sad way. Still going to
have to recompile stuff. Sigh.

On 02/01/2008, Toma <email address hidden> wrote:
> Just installed hardy alpha2... theres no .26 kernel on this CD I have.
> Im trying to get the needed kernel on it then Ill try again.
>
> On 31/12/2007, Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden> wrote:
> > ** Tags removed: hardy-alpha2
> >
> > --
> > r8180 and ieee80211_rtl cause total system lockup.
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156050
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
>

I cant find the new bug you linked to Leann
"I'm opened a new task against the actively developed kernel and am closing the report against linux-source-2.6.22. Thanks!"

Also, Ive tried it with ndiswrapper as a sign of defeat and I cant get that to work either.

Hi Toma,

Hopefully I clear up a few things.

1) The newer kernel is 2.6.24. There is no 2.6.26 kernel (not yet at least).
2) The rtl8180 driver can be found in the 'linux-ubuntu-modules' package. Please install this if it is not already.
3) The new task I opened is actually listed at the top of this bug report. Under the "Affects" header is the new 'linux' task. For the Hardy development cycle the kernel package naming convention changed from 'linux-source-2.6.xx' to just 'linux'. Adding the 'linux' task makes sure we don't forget about this report for the current release and will continue to try to work on getting it resolved.

Hope that helps. Thanks.

This is from the source.

linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-2.6.24/ubuntu/Makefile
...
# obj-$(CONFIG_RTL8187) += wireless/rtl818x/
...
# obj-$(CONFIG_NET_RTL818X) += wireless/rtl8180/rtl_ieee80211/
# obj-$(CONFIG_NET_RTL818X) += wireless/rtl8180/rtl8180/
...

Looks like its been disable to build, yet its included in the sources.
Also, skimming through the build logs suggests its not built either.

On 03/01/2008, Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi Toma,
>
> Hopefully I clear up a few things.
>
> 1) The newer kernel is 2.6.24. There is no 2.6.26 kernel (not yet at least).
> 2) The rtl8180 driver can be found in the 'linux-ubuntu-modules' package. Please install this if it is not already.
> 3) The new task I opened is actually listed at the top of this bug report. Under the "Affects" header is the new 'linux' task. For the Hardy development cycle the kernel package naming convention changed from 'linux-source-2.6.xx' to just 'linux'. Adding the 'linux' task makes sure we don't forget about this report for the current release and will continue to try to work on getting it resolved.
>
> Hope that helps. Thanks.
>
> --
> r8180 and ieee80211_rtl cause total system lockup.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156050
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Reassigning to kernel team for an explanation. I have included the git commit id which disabled the driver:

ogasawara@emiko:~/ubuntu-hardy-lum/ubuntu$ git log -p 860f49dc8e6f0c16dc3d8304770fda5dfc1d1b5e
commit 860f49dc8e6f0c16dc3d8304770fda5dfc1d1b5e
Author: Phillip Lougher <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Nov 29 17:00:48 2007 +0000

    UBUNTU: Update configuration files
    Ignore: yes

    Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <email address hidden>

closing 'linux' task as this is an issue for 'linux-ubuntu-modules'

drat - the kernel rtl8180 driver only handles USB adapters. I need to research serialmonkey.com to see if the drivers are current.

Thank you so very very much Tim. I was beginning to think i should
give up hope :*)
Ill give it a further dig, as im quite sure im not the only person
with an old crappy wireless card.

On 09/02/2008, Tim Gardner <email address hidden> wrote:
> drat - the kernel rtl8180 driver only handles USB adapters. I need to
> research serialmonkey.com to see if the drivers are current.
>
> ** Changed in: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: Ubuntu Kernel Team (ubuntu-kernel-team) => Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)
> Status: Triaged => In Progress
>
> --
> r8180 and ieee80211_rtl cause total system lockup.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156050
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

I've been hit by this problem too (see my thread on the Ubuntu forums; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=678735). I have tried Fedora 9 (Alpha) and the card works perfectly. Maybe some communication with the Fedora people would yield some results?

For evaluation purposes I put up a PPA at https://launchpad.net/~stefan-bader-canonical/+archive which hosts a special kernel, LUM and LBM. I put a backported rtl8180/x driver to LBM. I am sorry that this currently requires to update the kernel and LUM as well.

Unfortunately my laptop has died so I can't test this now =[

Thanks for the attention though, I will post this to the forum to see
if anyone else can give it a try.

On 12 May 2008, at 17:07, Stefan Bader wrote:

> For evaluation purposes I put up a PPA at https://launchpad.net/
> ~stefan-
> bader-canonical/+archive which hosts a special kernel, LUM and LBM. I
> put a backported rtl8180/x driver to LBM. I am sorry that this
> currently
> requires to update the kernel and LUM as well.
>
> --
> r8180 and ieee80211_rtl cause total system lockup.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156050
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.

Hi,

 I tried the PPA kernel on 8.04, (I tried generic flavor). My results:
 * + doesn't freeze
 * - low throughput: I tried apt-get install wireshark (just a test) - got 30 KiB/sec~ . Then I tried another wireless card (a usb rt73 based card), and got ~500KiB. This is anecdotal evidence as best, but I thought it might mean something.
 * - stops for no (visible) reason. To get it back up I had to do: rmmod, insmod, ifconfig.

I didn't see anything in the dmesg when I got the stops, or the throughput. There wasn't any cpu activity either.

Alon

While 9.04 may still have some performance issues, the driver appears to have stopped locking up.