Kernel panic

Hi,

Lately I am having kernel panic's, and I have no idea why.. I have not changed anything lately except for regular software updates. I am using Debian Woody 3.0, packages updated daily, with a 2.4.18 kernel. I have not noticed any pattern in occurance, the other day it happened just after I dialed my ISP, about 20 minutes ago I was simply using vim from my windows box via ssh, and just now I had it freeze again after typing vim .<tab>..

I also noticed that on reboot, it presents me with "(none) login:" rather than using my hostname of xion as per usual.. an ifconfig shows nothing, ifconfig simply lists lo, and no eth0. Another reboot fixes this. This has only happened once, I just had another kernel panic and this time on reboot my network is fine, so I am not sure whether this is related.

These are the messages I see on my terminal, I cannot see any more as this is the highest mode my monitor can support:

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<1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer deference at virtual address 00000000
printing eip:
000000
*pde = 000000

Oops: 0000
CPU:   0
EIP:   0010:[<00000000>]   Tainted: P
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax: 00000000   ebx: c6af3b40   ecx: c52df1eo   edx: 00000014
esi: c6af3c78   edi: c6d530bc   ebp: c6af3c78   esp: c030dd9c
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process Swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c030d000)
Stack: c02636oe c6af3b40 c6d530bc 00000014 c52df1e0 61f6f8a5 c6af3b40 c52df640
(more lines of this, my monitor is almost dead so was hard to read, if it is needed though I can find it out the next
time this problem occurs)
Call Trace: [<c026360e>] [<c0265bd6>] (etc, see above)

Code: Bad EIP value.
 <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!

In interrupt handler - not syncing
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I asked around a bit on IRC and it was suggested I try asking here as this seems a kernel related problem. Thanks for any help you can offer, if any more information about my situation is required let me know.

Regards,
Daniel Mundy

What binary only modules do you have loaded given the tainted marker is set ?