Comment 1 for bug 48087

From my experience, I was able to make a wireless card work using this driver (rt61) on one laptop but then on another laptop, it hangs and I get a kernel oops.

This is what we did on the current laptop:

1. Installed dapper
2. Dapper loads the rt61 module on its own
3. Upon running iwconfig, the terminal "hangs"
4. Checking dmesg reveals an oops message

Unfortunately, I don't have the information about the message right now but I do remember something about a NULL (de)reference error or something similar. Once the kernel oopses, it would be necessary to power-cycle the machine. It's a mystery to me as to why this happens since I was able to make the driver work on another laptop. Perhaps some details about the hardware are different?