ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet causes oops
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is a rather old USB ethernet adapter. It worked fine for me with older distributions (including Ubuntu 10.04). I noticed it causing problems after upgrading to 14.04 and stopped using it as a result (since I needed reliable USB ethernet for work). I was also not completely sure if it was this device causing the issue or interplay between this device and a number of other networking USB devices that were used at work.
I'd like to use this ethernet adapter at home but the machine is running Ubuntu 14.04 and the issue persists.
I have collected some information that might help. I'm happy to try more things to collect information if that will help.
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 server 64-bit. I just rebooted so I'm running the latest updates.
I was told to run ubuntu-bug linux but I'm not sure how much useful stuff is included in that. I'm including the kernel log which has some bad stuff happening in it. Not sure if it got the system-freezing oops or just the errors leading up to that.
It feels like a bug in the driver that corrupts memory because I see issues with network-related things (eg. a ping crashed, but the next ping didn't), leading to a full-system freeze.
This machine has been happily running Ubuntu for a looong time (though it was only recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, previously it had been running 10.04). I have not had stability issues with the machine but plugging in the USB Ethernet reliably makes it freeze within minutes. The symptoms also match what I saw on my machine at work.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: linux-image-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-49-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 20 21:23:29 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-31 (50 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
SourcePackage: linux-lts-vivid
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k3.19.0-49-generic.
AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/hwC0D1', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-31 (67 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteBook 8530w
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcFB: 0 nouveaufb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcVersionSign
RelatedPackageV
linux-
linux-
linux-firmware 1.127.20
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Tags: trusty
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-49-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:
WifiSyslog:
_MarkForUpload: True
dmi.bios.date: 06/08/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68PDV Ver. F.12
dmi.board.name: 30E7
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 90.27
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-
dmi.product.name: HP EliteBook 8530w
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
affects: | linux-lts-vivid (Ubuntu) → linux (Ubuntu) |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Incomplete |
tags: | added: bios-outdated-f.20 |
tags: | added: patch |
tags: |
added: bisect-done removed: needs-bisect |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
tags: | added: cherry-pick |
I've attached a screenshot of a hard-freeze. Will upload whatever logs were recovered too.