From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 31 1:31: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4088937B401; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 01:31:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from aader.com (urr.aader.com [213.219.127.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CFB143EB2; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 01:31:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ants@aader.com) Received: (from ants@localhost) by aader.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gBV9Uqp05817; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 11:30:53 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 11:30:51 +0200 From: Ants Aader To: Juli Mallett Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My wi(4) ate itself (or Fun with no memory). Message-ID: <20021231093051.GA4633@urr.aader.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Uptime: 10:45AM up 40 days, 16:25, 12 users, load averages: 0.59, 0.62, 0.64 X-Operating-System: NetBSD 1.6K i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have had almost exactly same problems about year ago. Orinoco silver stopped two times after 25 - 28 day working with freebsd current under somewhat strong load. Even after reboot it didn't work anymore. I burned two times new firmware and the card started to work again. The problem was gone if I put this card at third time to another machine. Ants On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:36:45AM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote: > Hey, > > I ran some stuff overnight which exhausted my system's memory fairly well, > and was also thrashing around on my network, and I woke up to find that my > wi(4) blew up more or less: > > wi0: watchdog timeout > wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0002; event status 0x8000 > wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0000; event status 0x8000 > wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear. > wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear. > wi0: init failed > wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear. ........ > wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC > wi0: tx buffer allocation failed > wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear. > wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC > wi0: mgmt. buffer allocation failed ........ > Was how it started, and then a lot more of the 'busy bit won't clear' > messages. I ejected the card after de-b0rking the rest of the system, and > was able to bring it back up fine, but thought maybe someone might have some > insight into how exactly my wi(4) blew up, and whether this is an acceptable > failure case :) > > Thanx, > juli. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message