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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 839019
   bringing up 10ec:8185 wifi module freezes the system

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Title:
  wifi module rtl8180 freezes the system

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in Debian GNU/Linux:
  New
Status in Fedora:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On computers with some rtl818x chip based wifi cards, when module
  rtl8180 is modprobed this causes a complete freeze of the system.

  This issue is severe for two reasons:
  * computers with such wifi cards aren't able to connect to their network via wifi through a native linux driver;
  * because rtl8180 is modprobed at startup, when a new user tries Ubuntu on such computer, the liveCD will show a black screen without any error message, and then the user will blame Ubuntu.

  Although there are already some similar bug reports, they are all too
  specific to another hardware so the aim of this report is to
  centralize any information about actual system freezes caused by
  rtl8180 modprobes. In addition, this bug has been initially described
  in previous bug #152527.

  Affected Ubuntu releases: Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic

  Affected wifi cards :
  * MSI PC54G3 III (chipset RTL8185L)
  * Zyxel G-302 V3

  Workarounds:
  * ndiswrapper:
      * works on Intrepid but not on Jaunty
  * manual install of Realtek's supported driver:
      * at least it seems it prevents the system from freezing
      * still in testing: some can connect to the network, some not

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
  LsUsb:
   Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
   Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
   Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0ac8:303b Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0303 WebCam
   Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
   Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: linux-image-2.6.27-14-generic 2.6.27-14.33
  ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=94814e6a-5868-4218-85ea-ff6550520509 ro quiet splash
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-14.33-generic
  SourcePackage: linux
  UnreportableReason: Ceci n'est pas un authentique paquet Ubuntu

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