On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:20:37PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:

You are very welcome. I'm glad to hear that it works for you. That
driver missed the 2.6.39 merge window due to an ASPM problem that
crashed my computer without any possibility of seeing what caused
the blowup. I was somewhat afraid that others would get similar
results even though Realsil did not see the problem.

Right, so I saw the oops below while playing with the driver earlier
but I attribute it to the fact that radio was switched off in the BIOS
(rfkill show said "Hard blocked: yes" for the wireless device). After
changing that I'm running smoothly so far. I'll keep you posted if I see
anything while using it in the next weeks.

Thanks.

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May  4 18:27:20 gere avahi-daemon[976]: Withdrawing workstation service for wlan0.
May  4 18:27:20 gere kernel: [ 1109.575431] rtl8192se 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.452554] rtl8192se 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.458855] rtl8192se 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.486730] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000004
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.487028] IP: [<ffffffffa02fd9aa>] rtl_reg_notifier+0x3a/0xe0 [rtlwifi]
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.487028] PGD 13d3f2067 PUD 13b92f067 PMD 0 
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.487028] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP 
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.487028] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/0000:03:00.0/ieee80211/phy3/uevent
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.487028] CPU 1 
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.487028] Modules linked in: rtl8192se(+) nls_utf8 nls_cp437 arc4 ipv6 fuse vfat fat loop btusb bluetooth usbhid snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_conexant snd_hda_intel option usb_wwan usb_storage snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm usbserial thinkpad_acpi snd_seq snd_timer ohci_hcd snd_seq_device snd pcspkr ehci_hcd rtlwifi soundcore thermal nvram snd_page_alloc usbcore edac_core video processor evdev mac80211 ac thermal_sys cfg80211 battery rfkill k8temp button i2c_piix4 [last unloaded: rtl8192se]
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] 
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] Pid: 2387, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.39-rc5-wl+ #15 LENOVO 01972NG/INVALID
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa02fd9aa>]  [<ffffffffa02fd9aa>] rtl_reg_notifier+0x3a/0xe0 [rtlwifi]
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] RSP: 0018:ffff88013d1a3b18  EFLAGS: 00010246
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] RAX: ffff88013d211be0 RBX: ffff88013d210180 RCX: 00000000000001a0
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] RDX: 000000000000000d RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] RBP: ffff88013d1a3b28 R08: 00000000000009bc R09: 0000000000000994
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] R10: 000000000000000e R11: ffffffffa03077f4 R12: 0000000000000000
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] R13: ffff88013d210180 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000001
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] FS:  00007f6219dbb700(0000) GS:ffff88013fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] CR2: 0000000000000004 CR3: 000000013d3e7000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] Process modprobe (pid: 2387, threadinfo ffff88013d1a2000, task ffff88013b945eb0)
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] Stack:
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  0000000000000000 0000000000000031 ffff88013d1a3b98 ffffffffa003d134
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  ffffffffa00584c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 ffffffff00000000
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  ffffea0004521d50 000000009552559e ffff88013e4010d0 ffff88013d210180
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] Call Trace:
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffffa003d134>] wiphy_update_regulatory+0x324/0x510 [cfg80211]
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffffa003a0ac>] wiphy_register+0x1cc/0x340 [cfg80211]
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff811052cf>] ? __kmalloc+0x11f/0x1d0
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffffa009c31d>] ieee80211_register_hw+0x18d/0x530 [mac80211]
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffffa0303a1b>] rtl_pci_probe+0x1773/0x19ef [rtlwifi]
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff811e3e2f>] local_pci_probe+0x5f/0xd0
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff811e44f8>] pci_device_probe+0x88/0xb0
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff8135419a>] ? driver_sysfs_add+0x7a/0xb0
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff81354496>] driver_probe_device+0x96/0x1b0
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff81354653>] __driver_attach+0xa3/0xb0
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff813545b0>] ? driver_probe_device+0x1b0/0x1b0
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff8135347e>] bus_for_each_dev+0x5e/0x90
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff8135411e>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff81353c95>] bus_add_driver+0xc5/0x270
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffffa0097000>] ? 0xffffffffa0096fff
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff81354c26>] driver_register+0x76/0x140
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffffa0097000>] ? 0xffffffffa0096fff
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff811e4796>] __pci_register_driver+0x56/0xd0
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffffa0097023>] rtl92se_module_init+0x23/0x59 [rtl8192se]
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff810002d4>] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x180
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff8108242a>] sys_init_module+0xba/0x200
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  [<ffffffff8147536b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] Code: 24 08 66 66 66 66 90 48 89 fb 49 89 f4 e8 7f d5 db ff 48 8b 40 38 f6 80 8b 27 00 00 08 75 49 48 8b bb 90 00 00 00 e8 96 fc ff ff 
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: <41>[ 1116.523056]  83 7c 24 04 03 74 0e 31 c0 48 8b 1c 24 4c 8b 64 24 08 c9 c3 
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] RIP  [<ffffffffa02fd9aa>] rtl_reg_notifier+0x3a/0xe0 [rtlwifi]
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056]  RSP <ffff88013d1a3b18>
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.523056] CR2: 0000000000000004
May  4 18:27:27 gere kernel: [ 1116.524232] ---[ end trace 9da2e30d01853e47 ]---

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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