Hi, Following my last email I think I know why peoples iwk driver is getting yanked from the kernel.
It would seem from my other kernel panic that's now been solved between Kerry from Sun and myself that Intel's device ID for there wifi chipset is the same as there e1000g nic. Laptops with these two chipsets will be affected. Due to Kerry's fix I believe that the bug that 'was' in e1000g was corrupting the iwk's FW when the e1000g driver gets plumb by nwam and attempts to attach its self to the wifi chipset as well. Thus, the iwk driver gets yanked from the kernel as its address space has been corrupted by the e1000g driver. To test this, could people effected please try to remove the following line from /etc/driver_aliases e1000g "pci8086,1011" and reboot. Hope this solves it ! Best Regards, Edward O'Callaghan. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Edward O'Callaghan Date: 2009/3/16 Subject: Lenovo Thinkpad T61p wifi gets yanked from kernel To: laptop-discuss <laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org> Hi all again, Another Lenovo in testing here. WiFi NIC randomly blows up its driver from FW problems ? Kernel yanks the driver and user says he needs to restart the network service to make it work again (presumably to replumb the device). I believe I seen this on the mailing list recently so I guess this is another reported case! Best Regards, Edward O'Callaghan. -- All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 ?standard file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents from this email address. The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to read international standards and who use proprietary products such as MS Office. See: http://www.openoffice.org/ Edward O'Callaghan. -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EdwardOcallaghan http://moonshine.opn4.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/ -- All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents from this email address. The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to read international standards and who use proprietary products such as MS Office. See: http://www.openoffice.org/ Edward O'Callaghan. -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EdwardOcallaghan http://moonshine.opn4.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/
