From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 15 09:15:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F6B8106568B for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:15:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117F28FC15 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:15:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NViGL-0003CG-Rk for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:14:37 +0100 Received: from 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz ([90.178.41.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:14:37 +0100 Received: from gamato by 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:14:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:12:59 +0100 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <20100104171154.GE86359@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100113 SeaMonkey/2.0.2 In-Reply-To: Sender: news Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0 regression: consecutive panics (iwi / wlan) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:15:04 -0000 martinko wrote: > > Well, the panic points at iwi (see my screenshot pls). > > And there are other wifi regressions I've already noticed. > > On 6.x I had 2 issues with iwi: > Interface was changing down and up especially when signal was weaker. > And there was the dreaded scan stuck. Sometimes the only help was to > reboot the machine. > > On 8.0 I haven't noticed scan stuck and down&up happens a lot less. But > I guess this is due to newer iwi firmware (3.1 vs 3.0). > > On the other hand wireless interface is too slow to associate during > boot and I'm seeing connection errors from e.g. ntpd. > > Also the following began appearing in the system log: > kernel: iwi0: need multicast update callback > > And there have been other issues posted to the lists in last weeks. > > I'd love these to be fixed and I'm willing to help investigate. > > Regards, > > Martin > > PS: I had the same panic today. After reboot I kept losing connection > after short time. Restarting AP didn't help. I switched laptop off&on > and it's running happily since (uptime 10h). Really weird. Sad as it is reported crashes are still happening and I'm getting more worried each day especially since today when the system booted to single due to unexpected soft-updates inconsistencies. (!) :-(( Panics/reboots started right after upgrade to 8.0 and they do not happen when I use wired instead of iwi/wlan connection (both in lagg). M.