ASUS PCE-N53 Kernel Panic

Question

Hello there.
I just bought a PCIe wireless network card for my x86_64 AMD Arch Linux box.
It uses Ralink drivers that are supplied from the CD that companied the card, but are also to be found on ASUS' website
According to the aforementioned webpage, the driver only support 2.6. That may very well be, because I tried to build it without too much of luck. That is, building it seems to go rather fine. The compilation succeeds and the network card works like a charm for a few minutes, I am able to connect to the Internet and all that before I get kernel panic with the error: Fatal exception in interrupt. Also, when I do a ifconfig, it says under ra0: "device interrupt 47". Not completely sure what this has to say about my problem, though.
I am willing to share any log, information, error and debug line that can help to find the root of this problem. I hope we will find a solution to this, because it is a neat and cheap card that has worked very well for me under Windows, at least compared to my D-Link USB adapter.
Thank you.

Answer 1

I tried building against a vanilla linux-3.8.3 and got the following errors;
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/git/linux'
  CC [M]  /var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../common/rtmp_mcu.o
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../common/rtmp_mcu.c: In function 'RtmpAsicSendCommandToMcu':
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../common/rtmp_mcu.c:558:4: warning: passing argument 3 of 'pci_read_config_word' from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
In file included from /var/git/RT5592STA/include/os/rt_linux.h:41:0,
                 from /var/git/RT5592STA/include/rtmp_os.h:44,
                 from /var/git/RT5592STA/include/rtmp_comm.h:69,
                 from /var/git/RT5592STA/include/rt_config.h:33,
                 from /var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../common/rtmp_mcu.c:28:
include/linux/pci.h:794:90: note: expected 'u16 *' but argument is of type 'ULONG *'
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../common/rtmp_mcu.c:564:4: warning: format '%x' expects argument of type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'ULONG' [-Wformat]
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../common/rtmp_mcu.c:564:4: warning: format '%x' expects argument of type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ULONG' [-Wformat]
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../common/rtmp_mcu.c:578:4: warning: passing argument 3 of 'pci_read_config_word' from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
In file included from /var/git/RT5592STA/include/os/rt_linux.h:41:0,
                 from /var/git/RT5592STA/include/rtmp_os.h:44,
                 from /var/git/RT5592STA/include/rtmp_comm.h:69,
                 from /var/git/RT5592STA/include/rt_config.h:33,
                 from /var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../common/rtmp_mcu.c:28:
include/linux/pci.h:794:90: note: expected 'u16 *' but argument is of type 'ULONG *'
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../common/rtmp_mcu.c:587:4: warning: format '%x' expects argument of type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'ULONG' [-Wformat]
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../common/rtmp_mcu.c:587:4: warning: format '%x' expects argument of type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ULONG' [-Wformat]
  CC [M]  /var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../os/linux/pci_main_dev.o
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../os/linux/pci_main_dev.c:46:22: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'rt2860_remove_one'
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../os/linux/pci_main_dev.c:47:22: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'rt2860_probe'
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../os/linux/pci_main_dev.c:71:46: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__devinitdata'
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../os/linux/pci_main_dev.c:97:15: error: 'rt2860_pci_tbl' undeclared here (not in a function)
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../os/linux/pci_main_dev.c:98:12: error: 'rt2860_probe' undeclared here (not in a function)
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../os/linux/pci_main_dev.c:101:5: error: implicit declaration of function '__devexit_p' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../os/linux/pci_main_dev.c:101:25: error: 'rt2860_remove_one' undeclared here (not in a function)
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../os/linux/pci_main_dev.c:309:22: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'rt2860_probe'
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../os/linux/pci_main_dev.c:483:23: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'rt2860_remove_one'
/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../os/linux/pci_main_dev.c:83:35: error: '__mod_pci_device_table' aliased to undefined symbol 'rt2860_pci_tbl'
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux/../../os/linux/pci_main_dev.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/git/RT5592STA/os/linux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/git/linux'
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2
looking at the line numbers in the error message, it appears that it has not detected the correct kernel version, as
pci_main_dev.c:46 is in some non 3.8.x code
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,8,0)
static VOID rt2860_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pci_dev);
static INT rt2860_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct pci_device_id  *ent);
#else
static VOID _devexit rt2860_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pci_dev);
static INT __devinit rt2860_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct pci_device_id  *ent);
#endif