From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 19 02:07:12 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2887106566C for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:07:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E098FC0C for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl8 with SMTP id l8so5062207yen.13 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:07:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=zlCZU1kKfAo5XneMQc627CxIc7P4ceCkEl0A2ie4j8c=; b=rfeXcUaR5kfA9b2i097HsSrzYA/xdLdkCH+eui6KO++ZSr2SfBG0Z4g82mCnYqk1YO Ok4srUDwqXSGbY+fUY4lb24G5KZme8UAY7mIk6T25QFwobVZaIb9jPEyBBr6f+YnGc7Q HNMxHHpll/0Jw1INilyoWSAda6ULAu44UHFB2XV2KMKfCQxHnNb+CuTqdhVszf0KHGMa J9ZC9B3fT4g2t4GyUNbCP48iRsqnIZEA6YLXUXPqh5oaGwoZELyvx2A5cp0NdAInX+IO B4Yvf7phB1rLBPLsm2HfuUWqUJf3ZV5WonHbZ2mWbf26CpbWNW4qThs7hV0U4FatKGgt rwwA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.130.68 with SMTP id u4mr6522526ics.17.1340071631002; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:07:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.50.112.4 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:07:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:07:10 -0500 Message-ID: From: Antonio Olivares To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: urtw0 wireless device on FreeBSD problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:07:12 -0000 Dear Folks, following an excellent guide by W. Block: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html I connected successfully to a wireless network. However, the connection works for a while then drops off. At the end I get a kernel panic and the machine presents press something to avoid shutdown. $ dmesg | grep 'urtw0' urtw0: on usbus3 urtw0: unknown RTL8187L type: 0x8000000 urtw0: rtl8187l rf rtl8225u hwrev none quadcore# tail -f /var/log/messages Jun 18 20:53:22 quadcore wpa_supplicant[515]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Jun 18 20:58:29 quadcore wpa_supplicant[515]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Jun 18 21:02:36 quadcore su: olivares to root on /dev/pts/0 I will see how I can post pictures to another website and find a way to troubleshoot this. Any ideas? Is there a place where the panics/oops are saved to retrieve them and cut + paste them here? /var/log/, /tmp/ ? Thanks, Antonio