Averatec 6240 pcmcia_socket0: unable to apply power

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, James wrote:
> cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
>  printing eip:
> c0138ea5
> *pde = 1d54f067
> Oops: 0000 [#1]
> Modules linked in: p80211(U) ntfs(U) video button
> battery ac md5 ipv6 yenta_sock et rsrc_nonstatic
> ohci_hcd ehci_hcd shpchp i2c_sis96x i2c_core
> snd_intel8x0m snd _intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq
> sn d_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm
> snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_ alloc orinoco_cs
> pcmcia orinoco hermes pcmcia_core sis900 mii
> dm_snapshot dm_zer o dm_mirror ext3 jbd dm_mod
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0060:[<c0138ea5>]    Not tainted VLI
> EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.12-1.1447_FC4)
> EIP is at call_usermodehelper+0x136/0x171
> eax: 00000000   ebx: dd560e34   ecx: ddfca540   edx: 00000000
> esi: 00000000   edi: dd560e80   ebp: dd560f68   esp: dd560e30
> ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
> Process modprobe (pid: 1609, threadinfo=dd560000 task=dd357550)
> Stack: dd676c1c 00000000 dd560e38 dd560e38 c0138d1f dd560ea4 00000000 00000000
>        00000000 00000000 1d244b3c 00000000 0000000a c038746f 00000000 00000000
>        4b87ad6e 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 1d244b3c 00000000 0000000a
> Call Trace:
>  [<c0138d1f>] __call_usermodehelper+0x0/0x50
>  [<de9ea020>] p80211_run_sbin_hotplug+0x104/0x13c [p80211]
>  [<c01f42a9>] inode_alloc_security+0x24/0xc9
>  [<c031ff6c>] netlink_insert+0x86/0x12c
>  [<de9e6016>] init_module+0x16/0x19 [p80211]
>  [<c014889c>] sys_init_module+0xca/0x1c4
>  [<c0103a61>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

This seems to be "path" being passed in as NULL in call_usermodehelper().

That would be wrong.

Considering that you also seem to be getting tons of versioning problems, 
I suspect you are running the wrong modules.

		Linus