Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:35:51 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: "V.Chukharev" <chukharev@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi leaks memory? Message-ID: <20070215143551.A94883@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <op.tns7i21z0g54sc@localhost>; from chukharev@mail.ru on Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:34:48PM %2B0200 References: <op.tns7i21z0g54sc@localhost>
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will have a look at this. Which version of if_iwi.c are you using ? cheers luigi On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0200, V.Chukharev wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that iwi driver cannot survive more than just a few cycles of switching down/up. > In a place with a bad wireless connection I needed to do that quite a number of times > (that was the simplest way to restore connectivity I knew), and after 5-10 cycles I needed > to reboot my notebook totally. > > Can anybody with iwi (<Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG>) confirm (or better unconfirm) > that doing > > for ii in `jot 100`; do sudo ifconfig iwi0 down; sleep 2; sudo ifconfig iwi0 up; done > > always results in the following messages (and lost connectivity): > > Feb 15 09:43:59 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN > Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to UP > Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN > Feb 15 09:44:18 chu kernel: iwi0: device timeout > Feb 15 09:44:20 chu kernel: iwi0: could not allocate firmware DMA memory > > A fix for this would be even better ;)) > > Thanks, > -- > V. Chukharev > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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