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Date:      Sun, 27 May 2007 12:24:49 -0700
From:      "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com>
To:        "Boris Kochergin" <spawk@acm.poly.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: System hang with Ralink RT2661
Message-ID:  <b1fa29170705271224r60278994sa32ac0c2b8da863c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <465959FF.4040401@acm.poly.edu>
References:  <465959FF.4040401@acm.poly.edu>

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It probably needs to drop its softc lock around if_input. The SAM_WIFI
contains many other fixes. I'm hoping it will be integrated into cvs
soon.

 -Kip


On 5/27/07, Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu> wrote:
> Hi. I got an "SMC SMCWPCI-GM" card the other day, which is one of these:
>
> May 27 01:16:55 router kernel: ral0: <Ralink Technology RT2661> mem
> 0xf4000000-0xf4007fff irq 10 at device 13.0 on pci0
> May 27 01:16:55 router kernel: ral0: MAC/BBP RT2661D, RF RT2529 (MIMO XR)
>
> I put it into a Pentium III machine (which has PCI 2.2, per the ral(4)
> man page) running a 7-CURRENT build from earlier today with a GENERIC
> kernel, and attempted to connect to my wireless network, the access
> point of which is an Atheros 5212 card, which has been serving Prism and
> other Atheros cards for months. The RT2661 card associated fine and was
> able to carry out lightweight operations like pinging and HTTP requests,
> but when I attempted to use it to send or receive any heavy traffic (a
> few dozen KiB/second), the system froze. I was able to toggle the caps
> lock/num lock lights, and if I did something to make the system beep
> (i.e. by pressing ALT+F10 when there was no virtual terminal running
> there), the beep would ring out endlessly. It may also be worth
> mentioning that the system was unresponsive to ACPI (via the power
> button) and that the same RT2661 card in the same machine has no trouble
> sniffing over 2 MiB/second of traffic via tcpdump. I'll be happy to
> provide any other information that may be deemed useful. Thanks.
>
> -Boris
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