After installing the aforementioned update, I started getting kernel panics--sometimes twice a day, and in in time span two in three hours! An archive and reinstall appeared to fix the problem, and I purposely skipped the 2007-001 Airport Extreme update.
To install the 802.11n enabler, this update is necessary. I though that maybe, just maybe, the update applied again wouldn't cause trouble.
I was wrong.
This time, I saved the kernel panic log entry before doing the archive and reinstall.
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Fri Feb 2 21:14:12 2007
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A31CE): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 1, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x0502e000, CR3: 0x00d8c000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x0502dff0, EBX: 0xe1c2651f, ECX: 0xd6eeede0, EDX: 0xe1e138d9
CR2: 0x0502e000, EBP: 0x251d34c8, ESI: 0x799af7ed, EDI: 0xc25370eb
EFL: 0x00010202, EIP: 0x009a8070, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x251d32a8 : 0x128d08 (0x3c9a14 0x251d32cc 0x131de5 0x0)
0x251d32e8 : 0x1a31ce (0x3cf6c8 0x1 0xe 0x3ceef8)
0x251d33f8 : 0x19a874 (0x251d3410 0x251d3454 0x12ec4f 0x4b9b00)
0x251d34c8 : 0x9a94b6 (0x502dff0 0x0 0x251d3600 0x251d35f0)
0x251d34e8 : 0x9a6c8e (0x481ba08 0x251d3600 0x251d35f0 0x522e8234)
0x251d3548 : 0x9a6eb2 (0x1 0x0 0x150 0x251d3600)
0x251d3628 : 0x98453e (0x23ce30ac 0x36e58b00 0x0 0x150)
0x251d3668 : 0x98f751 (0x23ce3004 0x36e58b00 0x251d36a8 0xffff76fc)
0x251d36a8 : 0x999090 (0x236cb4bc 0x36f73d00 0x23ce3004 0x0)
0x251d3938 : 0x99f0a6 (0x236cb4bc 0x251d3a4c 0x251d3f48 0x2f826c)
0x251d3a58 : 0x7eb480 (0x236cb000 0x36f73d00 0x3dc5c00 0x397f18)
0x251d3a78 : 0x7dce2c (0x3dc5c00 0x36f73d00 0x0 0x398701)
0x251d3aa8 : 0x399591 (0x3d53a00 0x3d53a00 0x3d826e0 0x251d3b2c)
0x251d3ad8 : 0x7dced1 (0x39e0ac0 0x7dcde0 0x3d53a00 0x3d826e0)
0x251d3b08 : 0x7dd154 (0x3d53a00 0x3d826e0 0x251d3b2c 0x19d23a)
0x251d3b48 : 0x7dd2b9 (0x3d53a00 0x36f73d00 0x38e1c00 0x21b0b3) Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AirPortAtheros(221.46)@0x96c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.1)@0x7ce000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.2)@0x580000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(151.1)@0x7e4000
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(151.1)@0x7e4000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.1)@0x7ce000
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.1)@0x7ce000
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.3: Wed Oct 18 21:57:10 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.15.4.obj~4/RELEASE_I386
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I always suspected it was a Airport-related issue; the KPs came when waking from sleep and immediately after acquiring a wireless signal, or starting some networking app while on a wireless connection (any app--Adium, iChat, Firefox, etc.)
(BTW--I love this clipping feature!)
I did another archive and reinstall, again skipping the update but applying everything else. I'll post back with any more findings. I'm also going to make Apple earn their keep om the AppleCare I just bought and call them today with the problems.
Does anybody have anything to add to this? Any resolution from Apple at all?
(This is kind of disappointing--in over a year with my iBook G4, I think I can count the kernel panics on three or four fingers. I can count them on my C2D MB on on hand stil, but I've had in just over two weeks
Still, despite this and the sporadic losses in signal/failure to reconnect/??? with the Airport, I'm not willing to go back to Windows. I must be stubborn
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