Yes, I've seen the presence of "rtl8192" in the backtraces, but that
does not mean much - it's just a kernel oops, which may or may not be
related to the kernel panic that happens at some later point. The
backtrace from the kernel panic itself would not appear in the dmesg,
since all basic kernel functionality - including filesystem drivers -
have stopped at that point.

That said, I'm under the impression that the rtl8192se driver is of rather bad 
quality (apart from unnecessarily noisy in the kernel logs..). There is a newer 
driver available at
http://218.210.127.131/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=21&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true
which is version 0019, as opposed to version 0017 currently in Ubuntu. I gave 
this one a try in maverick in an attempt to fix connection stability issues, 
but it did not seem any better than the version in Ubuntu (which I think was 
0015 in maverick). But perhaps it fixes the kernel panics, so I will give it 
another try.

More interestingly, in the downloads page above there are drivers for
other cards which use a new architecture, which allegedly fixes problems
with the earlier versions. The architecture seems to unify the drivers
for different cards. You can get for example the rtl8188ce driver, which
supposedly supports 8192se too. I tried compiling this one under natty,
but it hangs my computer. However at some point in the near future the
new driver might be made to work correctly with the 8192se, so there's
hope...

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  Random freezes with kernel 2.6.38-*

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