From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 21:56:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ADB216A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:56:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4124E43D46 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:56:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.32] (charm.daemonsecurity.com [192.168.0.32]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46DF7FD008 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:56:36 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41AF8F93.4000805@locolomo.org> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:56:35 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041114 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Mozilla breaks atheros? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:56:39 -0000 Hi, I have noted a bit wierd problem. I have a laptop, 128MB ram, of which 16MB are used for graphics. I recently bought a 3Com OfficeConnect card (atheros). If I boot up with the card, no problem, nor if I insert the card after boot - all seems to work as it should. But if I start up Mozilla (with just a blank page) and then insert the card, I get an error: ath0: mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 ath0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 3.6 ath0: failed to allocate descriptors: 12 device_attach: ath0 attach returned 12 cbb0: CardBus card activation failed If I close mozilla and try to reinsert the card, I still get the error, I have to reboot to use my wireless card. The manpage says: ath%d: failed to allocate descriptors: %d The driver was unable to allocate contiguous memory for the transmit and receive descriptors. This usually indicates system memory is scarce and/or fragmented. According to top I have plenty of memory free: Mem: 55M Active, 11M Inact, 28M Wired, 4256K Cache, 20M Buf, 2772K Free Swap: 512M Total, 74M Used, 438M Free, 14% Inuse I have tried this also with OpenOffice writer same result, whereas I have no problems with XEmacs. Since it appears there is free RAM, I guess more RAM won't solve the problem? How do I solve this, other than rebooting? How much memory does the driver need to allocate? Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2