Update: It seems there is no bug at all.
I just downloaded the latest daily live CD (Kernel 2.6.26-5) and retested my WLAN adapter on the PC of my house-mate. Well, i couldn't reproduce the error on his PC. Out of curiosity, i booted my pc with the live CD. Again, no OOPS occurred. So my hard disk installation must have gotten corrupted somehow. It didn't took me long to find a possible cause. free: total Mem: 514544 this is an odd number (502M), should be 512M some traces in dmseg: [ 0.615711] system 00:00: iomem range 0xd0000-0xd3fff has been reserved [ 0.615716] system 00:00: iomem range 0xf0000-0xf7fff could not be reserved [ 0.615719] system 00:00: iomem range 0xf8000-0xfbfff could not be reserved [ 0.615722] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfc000-0xfffff could not be reserved [ 0.615726] system 00:00: iomem range 0x1fff0000-0x1fffffff could not be reserved [ 0.615729] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff has been reserved [ 0.615733] system 00:00: iomem range 0xffee0000-0xffef2fff has been reserved [ 0.615736] system 00:00: iomem range 0xffef4000-0xffef8fff has been reserved [ 0.615740] system 00:00: iomem range 0xffefa000-0xffefafff has been reserved [ 0.615743] system 00:00: iomem range 0xffefc000-0xffefffff has been reserved [ 0.615746] system 00:00: iomem range 0xffff0000-0xffffffff could not be reserved [ 0.615750] system 00:00: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved [ 0.615753] system 00:00: iomem range 0x100000-0x1ffeffff could not be reserved [ 0.615756] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff has been reserved [ 0.615760] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfff80000-0xfffeffff has been reserved I ran memtest afterwards. (From the live CD, to be sure) It crashes repeatedly after ~58000 errors in test #2 "Moving Inversions, ones & zeros" regardless which of my 2 memory modules I've inserted. I suspect a hardware error in the memory controller. Christoph ** Attachment added: "dmesg-2.6.26-5_full.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16468787/dmesg-2.6.26-5_full.txt -- rt2x00 oopses in 2.6.26-4, regression against 2.6.24-3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249242 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs