[zd1211r][ZyDAS WLA-54L WiFi] Crashes Ubuntu 9.04 on boot, when the WLAN stick is attached

[tuxator]

When I've my "ZyDAS WLA-54L WiFi" attached to my PC during startup, Ubuntu 9.04 crashes.

The crash occurs just after the boot bar has been finished, the screen flickers and then I'm on the commandline for a few seconds and then the screen turns black. The only thing that I can do is restarting.

When I remove the USB Stick before booting and put it in after login everything (except the Networkmanager) works.

When I start the networkmanager, the whole system crashs again (bars are beeing removed and I'm unable to do anything...again) when I use the trayicon, everything works.

I've attached the specific area out of the systemlog, when starting with attached USB stick.

[jap1968 (jap1968)]

I am using this card on a PC with Ubuntu 9.04 with no problem at all. In fact, this card replaces an old USB wifi card that caused me a lot of problems.

In my case, the driver seems to be zd1211rw instead of zd1211r. I include related information:

$ lsusb | grep ZyDAS
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0ace:1215 ZyDAS WLA-54L WiFi

$ dmesg | grep zd1211
[ 13.774826] zd1211rw 1-4:1.0: phy0
[ 13.774860] usbcore: registered new interface driver zd1211rw
[ 24.865572] usb 1-4: firmware: requesting zd1211/zd1211b_ub
[ 24.976606] usb 1-4: firmware: requesting zd1211/zd1211b_uphr
[ 25.066127] zd1211rw 1-4:1.0: firmware version 4725
[ 25.107135] zd1211rw 1-4:1.0: zd1211b chip 0ace:1215 v4810 high 00-02-72 AL2230_RF pa0 g--NS

$ lsmod | grep zd1211
zd1211rw 52740 0
mac80211 217208 1 zd1211rw
cfg80211 38032 2 zd1211rw,mac80211

[tuxator (steffen-trekki)]

whoops, sorry

the driver is zd1211rw , sorry for the typo.

that's strange. I've now a Fritz!WLAN Usb Stick with Ndiswrapper and the error does not occur anymore. But when I connect my ZyDAS stick to the pc the same happens as mentioned in the description.

Maybe that is because of my location (germany)?

Apr 10 21:13:45 detructor15-desktop kernel: [ 23.014305] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: DE
Apr 10 21:13:45 detructor15-desktop kernel: [ 23.016546] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: DE
Apr 10 21:13:45 detructor15-desktop kernel: [ 23.016550] ^I(start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
Apr 10 21:13:45 detructor15-desktop kernel: [ 23.016552] ^I(2400000 KHz - 2483500 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
Apr 10 21:13:45 detructor15-desktop kernel: [ 23.016555] ^I(5150000 KHz - 5255000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2301 mBm)
Apr 10 21:13:45 detructor15-desktop kernel: [ 23.016557] ^I(5470000 KHz - 5650000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 3000 mBm)
Apr 10 21:13:46 detructor15-desktop NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
Apr 10 21:13:46 detructor15-desktop kernel: [ 24.012029] zd1211rw 1-10.3:1.0: error ioread32(CR_REG1): -110

after that things are starting to go wrong.

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in the kernel (linux).

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[Artiom Fiodorov (a.fiodorov)]

I got the same issue on 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP (x86_64) (10.04 Lucid)
my dmesg.log.tar.gz (taken straight after crash) is attached

$lsusb | grep ZyDAS
Bus 001 Device 012: ID 0ace:1215 ZyDAS WLA-54L 802.11bg

$lsmod | grep zd1211
zd1211rw 48559 0
mac80211 238128 2 zd1211rw,rtl8187
cfg80211 148386 4 zd1211rw,rndis_wlan,rtl8187,mac80211

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Hi Artiom,

Thanks for the confirmation. The tar.gz is not necessary (and slows down processing of this bug), so I'm attaching an uncompressed version.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug was filed against a series that is no longer supported and so is being marked as Won't Fix. If this issue still exists in a supported series, please file a new bug.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.