From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 14:35:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF57816A46C for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:35:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cokane@freebsd.org) Received: from QMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C556A13C4B8 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:35:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cokane@freebsd.org) Received: from OMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.43]) by QMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with smtp id AC1y1Y0060vp7WL010Ag00; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:35:39 +0000 Received: from discordia ([24.60.136.97]) by OMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id AEbd1Y00G26FYqY0000000; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:35:39 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=c-5m_Aq8_iVmjHHKPTsA:9 a=ShXG_ENJ2gev-k7WpfQA:7 a=HCqM8bYzfCol82dHnAtXWsJLZ1EA:4 a=6bqG61NMjcsA:10 Received: by discordia (Postfix, from userid 103) id 712431634F7; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:35:35 -0500 (EST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8-gr1 (2007-02-13) on discordia X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8-gr1 Received: from [172.20.1.3] (unknown [172.20.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by discordia (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3821634F6; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:35:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <47331E0C.3060907@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:32:44 -0500 From: Coleman Kane Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071104) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cokane@FreeBSD.org References: <4731D9FF.9010009@FreeBSD.org> <1194469080.858.13.camel@localhost> <47322B72.6060301@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47322B72.6060301@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cristi.magherusan@net.utcluj.ro, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Szymon Kozak Subject: Re: panic in 8-CURRENT / BGE hang X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: cokane@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:35:48 -0000 Coleman Kane wrote: > Cristi Magherusan wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 10:30 -0500, Coleman Kane wrote: >> >> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I've tried again the latest version of if_bge.c on my HP 6710b >>>> laptop with no results, even after setting hw.bge.allow_asf="0". >>>> I've also tried with the debugger and it seems to panic when >>>> calling free() in device_probe_child.c (IIRC). Then I #define'd >>>> BUS_PROBE and the freeze occurs after displaying something like >>>> "devclass_alloc_unit: now: unit 0 in devclass bge". >>>> >>>> The 7 Beta 1.5 install CD hangs also when loading the driver. >>>> >>>> I have a coredump made from whithin the debugger with the exact >>>> place where the faulty free() occurs, so I can provide more exact >>>> info if someone is interested. I just hope this is not a >>>> heisen-bug. >>>> >>>> Best regards, Cristi >>>> >>>> >>> I have a 6715b that is experiencing the same exact problem. I made a >>> release from 8-CURRENT as of last night and I still see it. Just by >>> chance, I installed my normal kernel (for my other amd64 machine) onto >>> the ISO and re-burned and it worked (since I don't have if_bge on that >>> kernel). After selectively loading/unloading modules I tracked it down >>> to this. >>> >>> Has any more traction been made on the BGE issue here? >>> >>> - -- >>> Coleman Kane >>> >>> >>> >> Hello, >> >> Did you run it step by step in the debugger and got the same results I >> did? I haven't tried any more debugging ever since, but we can join our >> forces and hopefully fix this damn issue so 7.0 won't have it on the >> release errata. >> >> > I haven't gotten that far on the problem yet. Though I inspected the > verbose booting output and saw that the point where it dies is during > init of the bge driver. > > Which wifi card do you have? Right now this notebook has no network > access whatsoever for me. I have tried a number of the Win64 drivers > with ndisgen and none of them seem to work. All of the drivers that I > can find seem to spit out some undefined function warnings on boot and > then throw a trap 12 during ndis init. > > I've got the BCM94321 a/b/g/n card in my laptop. (product id 0x4328). I > can't get bcmwl564.sys to detect the card, because it doesn't register > for the 4328 chips. > You may be happy to know that I managed to find a revision of bcmwl564.sys that works on my laptop. It is the one from Dell's website, in the R140746.EXE package. The driver in this package does claim to provide 802.11 a/b/g/n as well as 802.11h and d (whatever they are). -- Coleman Kane