From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 04:09:18 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01231106566B for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 04:09:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gw0-f49.google.com (mail-gw0-f49.google.com [74.125.83.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34A78FC08 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 04:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb1 with SMTP id 1so492863gwb.36 for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:09:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=8agYsukxhoLgWYCFHo4/9TKQ/BvDAm2eLU2AEMaD4BM=; b=oy4qBzfIk/Bee/RBMaAhp1EgMj4V6hYn87LV4d6+qIj8Twii4OD6vs9g0DCWpRwaIT 4h9UAuXJSh+Qyqqpz2wSvl1DlUHDQ8KDpcMBTqhCZsG7iOUi3V3ucjcZPZ1MDa+hEXHU wmsNAEZwWnf5rx443kp6AsjOGeMp4wVlwDWNM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.37.230 with SMTP id y66mr1182279yha.10.1315454956988; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.236.103.6 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 21:09:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201109080354.10765.geoff@apro.com.au> References: <201108290134.50561.geoff@apro.com.au> <201109080354.10765.geoff@apro.com.au> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:09:16 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Pqpac4CdjkxWr3xWdsbFEuPpEkc Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: geoff@apro.com.au Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Atheros 5212 based card causing system freeze - suggested replacement? X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:09:18 -0000 On 8 September 2011 01:54, Geoff Roberts wrote: > Hi Adria, > > On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 08:27:19 am Adrian Chadd wrote: >> Hi, have you had a chance to try your system with < 4G ram? > > I found a 2GB memory stick. > > Unfortunately it did not make a difference - all of the following CD bootable > systems froze at the ath initialisation: > > a) 8.0 R i386 > b) 8.1 R i386 > c) 8.2 R i386 > d) 9.0 Beta 2 amd64 > > I also tried with AHCI disable and the same result. Hm, ok. Let's try this. Put this into /boot/loader.conf: hw.ath.hal.debug=0xffffffff dev.ath.0.debug=0xffffffff Let's see if we can get some idea of where it actually does hang. Thanks, Adrian