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Date:      Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:45:53 -0500
From:      Adam Twardowski <adam.twardowski@gmail.com>
To:        Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [urtw] Random wireless crash / kernel panic
Message-ID:  <CAEvxfZc%2BF8K8u8eowBy9w7YffZDxRCz1QzM5bbBR2dCTdg-uSg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201202201832.11604.bschmidt@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org> w=
rote:
> On Monday 20 February 2012 18:03:45 Adam Twardowski wrote:
>> I do still have the kernel and the crash dump. =A0I'll try that fix toni=
ght
>> to see how it goes. =A0Unfortunately, the kernel doesn't usually crash, =
more
>> likely the wifi stops working and I am forced to reboot the machine to g=
et
>> it working again.
>
> Building urtw(4) as module here helps a lot, kldunload/kldload is just so=
 much faster than a reboot. :)
>
> I have a bunch of asorted fixes [1] for urtw(4) which needs some further =
testing, though I still wasn't able to fix the issue which made me look int=
o this in the first place.. As a test case I force a disconnection from the=
 AP side a few times, which will eventually result in a device timeout and =
the requirement to reload the module. I believe that one of those might act=
ually address the panic you're seeing, though, it doesn't fix the device ti=
meout.
>
> [1] http://techwires.net/~bschmidt/urtw/
>
> --
> Bernhard

Bernhard,

I just applied your four patches and rebooted.  I also went with a
module like you suggested.  We will see how it goes.  I did not apply
Adrians change above, not sure if it was necessary.



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