From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 6 13:35:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348B01065675; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:35:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from geoff@apro.com.au) Received: from mail.ricksure.com.au (mail.ricksure.com.au [203.98.89.150]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DDF8FC0C; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 171.78.233.220.static.exetel.com.au [220.233.78.171] by mail.ricksure.com.au with SMTP; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 23:35:38 +1000 From: Geoff Roberts Organization: Australian Projects To: Adrian Chadd Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 23:35:15 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.32-33-generic; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201108290134.50561.geoff@apro.com.au> <201109052323.15363.geoff@apro.com.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201109062335.15397.geoff@apro.com.au> X-Declude-Sender: geoff@apro.com.au [220.233.78.171] X-Declude-Spoolname: 46167576.eml X-Declude-RefID: X-Declude-Note: Scanned by Declude 4.6.35 "http://www.declude.com/x-note.htm" X-Declude-Scan: Outgoing Score [0] at 23:35:39 on 06 Sep 2011 X-Declude-Tests: Whitelisted X-Country-Chain: X-Declude-Code: 0 X-Declude-Recipcount: 2 Organization: Declude, Inc. X-Helo: ubuntutest-01.localnet X-RevDNS: Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Atheros 5212 based card causing system freeze - suggested replacement? X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: geoff@apro.com.au List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:35:52 -0000 Hi Adrian, On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 11:29:51 pm Adrian Chadd wrote: > Are you able to try booting 8.0-RELEASE or 8.1-RELEASE via CD, with > only 2GB of RAM? Issue is getting the 2GB RAM module - I may have a 2 GB stick in an older system. I'll let you know how I get on. > I don't have any further ideas, I'm afraid. But I'd really like to > nail this down before 9.0-REL is working, so let's see if we can find > a working setup. I guess the other possibility is to try a completely different OS. If that boots OK then we most likely have a software - or at least a hardware initialisation problem via software. Would that be a worthwhile test. If so, is there another CD bootable system that would be worth trying (I don't have access to any Windows based OS)? In the meantime, are there any PCI express based cards that you think would be worth considering that could handle VAPs? I'd like to get the wireless network up and running whilst we work on the Netgear card. Kind regards, Geoff