From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 00:40:35 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7D8106564A for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:40:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from break19@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 DDFC98FC0C for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxk36 with SMTP id 36so4007622yxk.13 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:40:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=8fszG1frYnbLwxSa2iNiRxitE3ibyT8Yi7uOQWSujGw=; b=G0J6nXLpX7Z/weDEocxy3/IOajfk2hkbh7gktvjPFh+kaAvoGzr+Hu0aghqoZsD3cl q/wFqrhWDAAtF3kFV17kSjvymsEJYhJ1VNgsMGyIh0XcJQL8q5KdxOnqHPSf76QA4LZ7 udz28xJpcnCTySVvaYHOC71mXy8UrryrfeyZ4= Received: by 10.236.128.236 with SMTP id f72mr6948018yhi.13.1317948034188; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blackbeast.local (c-98-230-65-110.hsd1.al.comcast.net. [98.230.65.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n67sm10310207yhi.9.2011.10.06.17.40.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:40:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Chuck Burns To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:39:42 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.6.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201110042008.48915.break19@gmail.com> <201110061902.15838.break19@gmail.com> <20111007003046.GE38162@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <20111007003046.GE38162@in-addr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201110061939.42854.break19@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect. X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:40:35 -0000 On Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:30:46 PM Gary Palmer wrote: > Actually, that won't be enough. Sorry if I gave that idea. If you check > /etc/rc.d/dumpon then you'll see that if the script succeeds in telling > the kernel to dump on a given swap partition then it creates the > symlink in the /dev directory. I couldn't see any other easy way to > check if your kernel had been configured to dump to the swap partition or > not. > > Do you have a dumpdev setting in /etc/rc.conf? Does /etc/fstab list > /dev/ada0p2 as a swap partition? > > Thanks for the configuration info. > > Gary Just added the dumpdev line, here is my rc.conf # cat /etc/rc.conf sshd_enable="YES" wlans_urtw0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" zfs_enable="YES" hostname="blackbeast.local" linux_enable="YES" powerd_enable='YES' dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" avahi_daemon_enable="YES" avahi_dnsconfd_enable="YES" mdnsd_enable="YES" kdm4_enable="YES" local_startup="/usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d /usr/local/etc/rc.d" devfs_system_ruleset="system" quasselcore_enable="YES" font8x8="iso-8x8" allscreens_flags="VGA_80x60" dumpdev="/dev/ada0p2" and here is my fstab (I disabled geli several reboots/crashes ago, thinking that may be what was preventing the crash dumps, as well as changed the swap line to point directly to the partition, rather than the gpt label) # cat /etc/fstab /dev/ada0p2 none swap sw 0 0 #/dev/gpt/swap0.eli none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw,late 0 0