From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 15 22:35:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E0716A409 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:35:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rizzo@icir.org) Received: from xorpc.icir.org (xorpc.icir.org [192.150.187.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7502113C4A7 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:35:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rizzo@icir.org) Received: from xorpc.icir.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xorpc.icir.org (8.12.11/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l1FMZp1k095317; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:35:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo@xorpc.icir.org) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by xorpc.icir.org (8.12.11/8.12.3/Submit) id l1FMZpvK095316; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:35:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:35:51 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo To: "V.Chukharev" Message-ID: <20070215143551.A94883@xorpc.icir.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from chukharev@mail.ru on Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0200 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi leaks memory? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:35:52 -0000 will have a look at this. Which version of if_iwi.c are you using ? cheers luigi On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0200, V.Chukharev wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that iwi driver cannot survive more than just a few cycles of switching down/up. > In a place with a bad wireless connection I needed to do that quite a number of times > (that was the simplest way to restore connectivity I knew), and after 5-10 cycles I needed > to reboot my notebook totally. > > Can anybody with iwi () confirm (or better unconfirm) > that doing > > for ii in `jot 100`; do sudo ifconfig iwi0 down; sleep 2; sudo ifconfig iwi0 up; done > > always results in the following messages (and lost connectivity): > > Feb 15 09:43:59 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN > Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to UP > Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN > Feb 15 09:44:18 chu kernel: iwi0: device timeout > Feb 15 09:44:20 chu kernel: iwi0: could not allocate firmware DMA memory > > A fix for this would be even better ;)) > > Thanks, > -- > V. Chukharev > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"