From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 21 15:20:54 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1233) id D43E51065670; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:20:54 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:20:54 +0000 From: Alexander Best To: Warren Block Message-ID: <20111121152054.GA22220@freebsd.org> References: <20111121131730.GA3599@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: issues with the recent ath commits (r227740, r227651, ...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:20:54 -0000 On Mon Nov 21 11, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Alexander Best wrote: > > >hi there, > > > >after the recent ath commits (r227740, r227651, ...) i'm experiencing > >issues > >with my > > > >ath0@pci0:5:1:0: class=0x020000 card=0x5a001385 chip=0x0013168c > >rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' > > device = 'AR5212/AR5213 Wireless Network Adapter' > > class = network > > subclass = ethernet > > > >card on amd64. my system will either panic right during boot up or will > >actually boot, but then after a few minutes lock up my whole system. > > > >i'll try reverting my kernel to r227739 to check, if that fixes the issue. > >if it does, i'll try to gather some more stats to identify the issue more > >thoroughly. if it does not, i'll try reverting past the other recent ath > >commits (such as r227651). > > Also seen here with a AR5BXB63: > > ath0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x0087106b chip=0x0024168c > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' > device = 'AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter' > class = network > bar [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xfddf0000, size 65536, enabled > > Updated to latest -head a couple of days ago, it came up and worked fine > in 11g mode for a few minutes, possibly until nontrivial network > activity. Then locked up hard. Removing the card and using wired > networking solved it, but I haven't gone back to narrow it down yet. i've experimented a bit with different kernels: r227651 - panics or locks up after a few minutes r227650 - everything ok ... so switching back to r227650 should solve the issue for you, too. cheers. alex >