From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 10:31:44 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 B2E791065673 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:31:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F8828FC13 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so6632135gxk.13 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:31:43 -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 :content-transfer-encoding; bh=4CA9lBRwQihP5GocAHOLVodQwO46Chkl0iXBCFUUXGk=; b=sMGelgp+1pazmqNu/Kdx4nU5TXNwwyZcKQKbwxsWnZvnmB0CexpLzFHuXgJ0NN5bjA ac0bENCdwegrptzCleieJfGqtL9M6lGuWKvq64gLSR6IG75/FmsK8Y1NevsAEsaovz/s RE70uJml3F36UQBBCjytnC93MBp4VKhy7CDYI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.206.3 with SMTP id d3mr5834403ybg.315.1314700303552; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.145.21 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:31:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110830172125.17936q7fxrc6x8j4@aprosrv2.apro.com.au> References: <201108290134.50561.geoff@apro.com.au> <201108291308.30442.geoff@apro.com.au> <20110830172125.17936q7fxrc6x8j4@aprosrv2.apro.com.au> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:31:43 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: DYSoNx5jW7liT0kd8bUhamvNNx8 Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Geoff Roberts Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:31:44 -0000 On 30 August 2011 15:21, Geoff Roberts wrote: > Unfortunately booting from the 32 bit 8.2-R i386 system froze when loadin= g > the ath driver. Same as the 64 bit system. That's not good. :( > The new system (apart from a new motherboard, CPU and architecture :)) al= so > has more than 4GB=A0 RAM installed. I guess in theory the 32 bit kernel s= hould > take that out of the equation. Can you please take out memory above 2GB and let me know what happens? > Is there any other debug information I can help with, or is this looking > more like an intractable low-level PCI/BIOS/Firmware interface issue? Nope; I'd like to figure out why it's not working.. adrian