From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 15:12:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0EC6106566C for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:12:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64E38FC13 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:12:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Received: from trouble.errno.com (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id m61FCHbs060743 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:12:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <486A4950.9090707@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:12:16 -0700 From: Sam Leffler Organization: FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Apitz References: <20080701125452.GA10729@rebelion.Sisis.de> <486A3E6A.2090403@freebsd.org> <20080701143420.GA13667@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20080701143420.GA13667@rebelion.Sisis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-DCC--Metrics: ebb.errno.com; whitelist Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7 && ath && WPA && stuck when bgscan is active on interface X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:12:17 -0000 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Tuesday, July 01, 2008 a las 07:25:46AM -0700, Sam Leffler escribió: > > >> Matthias Apitz wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm running the above configuration, RELENG_7 kernel and WPA, on an Asus >>> laptop eeePC 900 for which one must patch the HAL with: >>> http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz ) >>> all is fine, mostly, but when 'bgscan' is activated on the interface >>> ath0 it get stuck reproduce-able after some time without any traffic >>> through >>> the interface; setting 'ifconfig ath0 -bgscan' makes the problem going >>> away; >>> >>> could it be related to the bug I'm facing on another laptop with >>> bgscan/WPA/iwi0, see: >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=122331 >>> >>> >> The hal at http://www.freebsd.org/~sam + HEAD should work fine but note >> that it requires driver mods that are only in HEAD. >> >> Sorry, but I cannot help w/ random collection of untested bits. >> >> Sam >> > > Hello Sam, > > To what you make refer with 'random collection of untested bits', to > RELENG_7 or the the above mentioned madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz? > Pulling in a hal from madwifi to use w/ a freebsd driver can easily cause problems. That is what I meant by "random collection...". > the info about that is coming from this Wiki: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee > > is there some way to get your hal bits into RELENG_7? > > The hal is not in HEAD so MFC to RELENG_7 is premature. In fact I hadn't even announced the hal for testing yet but now that I've returned from 3 weeks AFK it's probably time. I also wanted to backport all the important driver mods to RELENG_7 before saying anything but that didn't happen. Sam