From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 17 21:11:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DDF316A4E0 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:11:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E358F43D31 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:11:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9HLDh7N067240 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:13:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9HLBHZk079260 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@realtime.exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9HLBHLL079259 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200410172111.i9HLBHLL079259@realtime.exit.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:11:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Copyright0: Copyright 2004 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL119 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: NDIS-related crash FYI. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank@exit.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:11:19 -0000 Just so folks will know, I uncovered and fixed an NDIS-related LOR last night/this morning. Check out PR 72795 for the details and fix. Turns out ndis_start() was failing to release the NDIS lock on one path through the code... It might explain a number of crashes I saw before I switched wireless cards. After, of course, the system became unusably unstable due the the crashes, it wouldn't run for more than an hour and sometimes only a few minutes before stumbling over the dangling lock. (I also have to say that being able to use the firewire port as the console really made a huge difference; this laptop doesn't have a serial port other than the internal Winmodem.) -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/