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Date:      Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:21:33 +0100
From:      "Alex Burke" <alexjeffburke@gmail.com>
To:        "FreeBSD STABLE" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: atheros 'device timeout'
Message-ID:  <a8b8bb510606131521w9711890p2af69c3b2babdec9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <448F36CB.6000604@cs.okstate.edu>
References:  <448F36CB.6000604@cs.okstate.edu>

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Hi,

Just to chime in and say that I have seen device timeout messages too
- the behaviour for me was (ok, maybe a bit random but...) having
mounted an NFS exported /usr/src and hammering it with a buildworld.
So really, I guess I can only say that I have seen this when the
wireless card was under some very heavy load.

Symptoms where I would notice things just stop, it dissociates...and
sure enough, on the console was an ath0: device timeout message. I was
using WPA2-PSK, and the card I have is a Netgear WPN511 (Cardbus),
which i think defines itself as a 5212 chip. I was running FreeBSD 6.0
with all security patches at the time.

Anyways, it does appear that it can happen, and glad I am not the only
one hititng it - would be interested to find out how hard you were
working it when it occured though.

If anoybody needs any furhter information, I will put 6.1 on my laptop
and see if I can reproduce and/or retrieve anything that may help.

Thanks, Alex J Burke.



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