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[Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe - I received email from the driver maintainer (Larry Finger) with a
patch. Please build a test kernel and submit for testing.

"Sven and Tim,

Attached is a one-line fix for the problem that shows up between
3.8.0-36 and 3.8.0-37. It is just a bare patch file, but feel free to
add any explanatory text to make it a proper commit.

I have no real understanding as to why this line of code does not cause
any problems with later kernel versions, but it does here. In addition,
I have not had any reports of problems with other users. That makes me
suspect some kind of bad interaction with the user-space network control
components in 12.04.

Would it be helpful for Nicolas to prepare a bug report at Ubuntu?

Larry "

** Patch added: "Fix Ubuntu crash"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1289429/+attachment/4102316/+files/fix_ubuntu_crash.diff

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Title:
  rtl8192ce kernel panic on bootup

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
  DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
  DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS"
  Fully updated.

  Linux 3.8.0-37-generic AMD64 kernel, the rtl8192ce driver sometimes
  causes a kernel panic on system startup of my Lenovo Thinkpad X230.
  Restarting many times results in some sucessful boots, but the problem
  can be persistant. The problem does not occur on the Linux
  3.8.0-36-generic AMD64 kernel.

  Unfortunately the dump I get on the screen durring such crashed boots,
  does not appear to be in the logs.

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