From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 19:03:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB077917 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-x22b.google.com (mail-qg0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c04::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B4DE3A8F for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id a108so9206159qge.16 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:03:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Km3tY6gmLIyORBkPfy1wZ3lOZdejXBQxVyI/L/wxPbI=; b=l++yXo6z2DjC51cuADOUULUTmEyxyqGg2vhDPGvSGjfZFHVDNiqywUc3xpoyis1yPD LulRaez5WKKunDL2W1slFobFj9a/IMqn3N7wznZdeG4toykON08PBoyqAsBnQl586BW3 /pQJRL0dht39I40gprjCgOLhJnHOTWr+kZSXTv9TDG1jvC1FLKlF4OU53alFFs514frv QC2NqdqoRWu4I1r9DYPKZBfxBa4Kj+sJ4VVroxlBwATG/4oTdUEuIC25IVxseAi5FlSH WOWDcHuI3fAdxCWdy0Df4Wpl7R8zTV3VijGdoCmHWxInDdICVj6j/k2lzsM6AH0Bhino Jg/A== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.80.167 with SMTP id c36mr909001qgd.52.1408647803634; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.39.139 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:03:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:03:23 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mLs4lc-mdFhYT_23yVngsqiq3Ts Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is there anyone who can look at, and possibly fix this? From: Adrian Chadd To: Chuck Burns Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list 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: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:03:24 -0000 Hi! Neither of those drivers have active maintainers in FreeBSD. I'm sorry. :( -a On 21 August 2014 11:59, Chuck Burns wrote: > There was a bug filed about 7 months ago, with iwi crashing under heavy > usage. I am also hitting this bug under 10-stable. > > Things that trigger the bug are heavy two-way usage, such as > bittorrent/aria2c and X11-forwarding over my LAN. > > bug#185478 > > The original reporter had this bug under 10.0-RELEASE, and I was under > 10-stable. > > Took several reboots (and quite a bit of $HOME corruption as well) to track > down a semi-reliable way to reproduce the bug. > > It does not always trigger a kernel panic, but iwi will always die with > "iwi0: Firmware Error" and usually, attempting to restart netif will cause > the panic. Even restarting netif will not bring the system back. > > I've got a urtw0 usb dongle that I can sometimes get to work after the iwi0 > goes belly up, but not always.... (and for the record, I had tons of > trouble with urtw0 back in 9-current, and it was -never- made stable for > me...) > > With that said, however, iwi0 seems to be perfectly stable under OpenBSD > and various Linux distros, which makes me wonder if A) do we need a > different firmware version? or B) is there a problem with our > implementation of the driver? > > I'm happy to provide as much more information as I can (I'm currently not > running FreeBSD on this machine, but that is easily, and quickly remedied > if anyone wants to attempt a fix with me) > > Thanks, > Chuck Burns > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"