Causes reboot on CM6 for Slide

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Which device (manufacturer, type)?
T-mobile mytouch 3G slide aka HTC Espresso, HTC Slide
Which firmware is installed?
CM6 for Slide RC1, occurs on nightlies as well
What version of wireless tether are you using?
All versions for Android 2.x
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Press "Start tether" on app.
2.Phone will reboot
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The "Start Tethering" pop up to go away.  Phone reboot.
Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rob.roll...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2010 at 5:29

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Feel free to merge or delete this post.  I didn't see this issue addressed 
until after I posted.  Apologies.

Original comment by rob.roll...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2010 at 5:31

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I got this same proble n I'm using the same rom .when I run the tether app . It 
runs but with errors. In the show logs its seys 2 fails. One is something about 
firmare 

Original comment by G3cU...@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2010 at 5:59

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This issue is still present on CM6 release for the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide. I 
am updating this post to give more detailed information in hopes of a fix.

To reproduce this problem, start the application, chose any settings, then 
click on the Wifi symbol to start. If running the program for the first time 
the SuperUser dialog does present itself, "Allow," then it says it's starting. 
After a few seconds the phone freezes, pauses 5 seconds, then reboots.

As a long-time Linux user and developer I understand the need for more detailed 
information and logs so I have attached a /proc/last_kmsg to this comment in 
hopes of debugging. The reboot it caused by a kernel panic in the Wifi driver.

Nothing else on CM6 causes this reboot with Wifi, so it is likely something 
that the Wireless Tether is doing. The most interesting portion of this log is:

[ 1092.617919] Starting to process NVS...
[ 1092.618286] No Nvs, Setting default MAC address
[ 1092.618499] pHwInit->uEEPROMCurLen: 1c
>>> [ 1092.618682] ERROR: If you are not calibating the device, you will soon 
get errors !!! <<<
[ 1092.619384] Chip ID is 0x4030111.
[ 1092.620300] FEM Type 1 
[ 1092.621002] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual 
address 00000000

The kernel is in fact correct: we did soon get errors. ;) 1ms later the kernel 
oopses.

While this may ultimately be a bug in the Wifi driver (since there's a NULL 
dereference), it would be nice to have this bug fixed in the next pre-release 
version of Wireless Tether. Can someone please comment on this? Thanks!

Original comment by nbetc...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2010 at 5:49

Attachments:

• last_kmsg.txt

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Ok, let me see what I can do.

Original comment by harald....@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2010 at 7:38

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Issue 556 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by harald....@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2010 at 2:09

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I chipped in some coffee money to help. =)

Original comment by james.d....@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2010 at 2:48

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Just kicked in some money as well. this has been a pain for me. Love it on 
other roms, but i just couldnt keep using them.

Original comment by emperora...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2010 at 8:28

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2.0.5pre13 has fixed the issue.  Works beautifully. Thank you! 

Original comment by rob.roll...@gmail.com on 16 Nov 2010 at 10:34