Comment 46 for bug 294667

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pablomme (pablomme) wrote :

> I am using wireless again, so if you do not need the backports, please remove them.

Some people do need the backports, though, in which case the temporary solution is to stick to the 2.6.27-7.4 version as stated earlier. BTW, if you encounter a complete system freeze 5 minutes after starting a wireless connection (which happens only with particular networks), reinstall the backports :-)

> I will try to debug this further now and get a backtrace, this is still necessary right?

What do you want to get a backtrace of? You do a backtrace of a program when it crashes, to determine what it was doing when things went wrong. In this particular bug we don't have a crash. There is a mismatch between the symbols in the iwl3945 module and those in the kernel, so the kernel rejects loading the module (thankfully the kernel's smart; it could indeed load it and crash the entire machine!). That's pretty much diagnosed, the fix is to resynchronize the symbols referenced in the backports modules with those in the current version of the kernel, so we just need to wait for a developer in the kernel team to find some time to fix it.