Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:41:09 +0200 From: "V.Chukharev" <chukharev@mail.ru> To: "Luigi Rizzo" <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi leaks memory? Message-ID: <op.tntwumw30g54sc@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070215143551.A94883@xorpc.icir.org> References: <op.tns7i21z0g54sc@localhost> <20070215143551.A94883@xorpc.icir.org>
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:35:51 +0200, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> wrote:
> will have a look at this.
> Which version of if_iwi.c are you using ?
Thanks.
$ grep -i __FBSDID /usr/src/sys/dev/iwi/if_iwi.c
__FBSDID("$FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/iwi/if_iwi.c,v 1.8.2.12 2007/01/23 22:17:48 jhb Exp $");
It's STABLE, updated couple of days ago.
> cheers
> luigi
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0200, V.Chukharev wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that iwi driver cannot survive more than just a few cycles of switching down/up.
>> In a place with a bad wireless connection I needed to do that quite a number of times
>> (that was the simplest way to restore connectivity I knew), and after 5-10 cycles I needed
>> to reboot my notebook totally.
>>
>> Can anybody with iwi (<Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG>) confirm (or better unconfirm)
>> that doing
>>
>> for ii in `jot 100`; do sudo ifconfig iwi0 down; sleep 2; sudo ifconfig iwi0 up; done
>>
>> always results in the following messages (and lost connectivity):
>>
>> Feb 15 09:43:59 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to UP
>> Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Feb 15 09:44:18 chu kernel: iwi0: device timeout
>> Feb 15 09:44:20 chu kernel: iwi0: could not allocate firmware DMA memory
>>
>> A fix for this would be even better ;))
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> V. Chukharev
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V. Chukharev
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