From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 23 05:42:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 649D616A41F for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:42:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daniel+bsd@pelleg.org) Received: from atoz.libagent.org (atoz.libagent.org [69.55.228.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2656C43D46 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:42:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daniel+bsd@pelleg.org) Received: from muky.here (bzq-218-119-84.red.bezeqint.net [81.218.119.84]) by atoz.libagent.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E45825C15; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:42:49 +0300 (IDT) Received: by muky.here (Postfix, from userid 7675) id AC6EE240; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:43:11 +0300 (IDT) To: Frank Altpeter References: <42D379D1.14405.33372CA1@localhost> <42D757AF.7080.B05835F@localhost> <42DD6EC6.10932.147433E5@localhost> From: Dan Pelleg Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:43:11 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Frank Altpeter's message of "Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:29:14 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipw freezes X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:42:50 -0000 Frank Altpeter writes: > 2005/7/20, Dan Langille : >> On 15 Jul 2005 at 6:29, Dan Langille wrote: >> >> > On 12 Jul 2005 at 8:05, Dan Langille wrote: >> > >> > > My ThinkPad T41 is experiences total system freezes using -current. >> > > I usually invoke this wonderful state when running putty under X and >> > > then do a 'cvs di'. >> > > >> > > I haven't tried testing this just from the console, but plan to. >> > >> > I've tested this problem from the console. The laptop froze during a >> > cvs di. That's eliminated X and/or putty as the cause. >> >> The problem can also occur when browsing the web. It's not just a >> text problem. > > I also experience this problem with my ThinkPad t40 sometimes. I can > reproduce the freeze when starting ipw, connecting to the net via WLAN > and then start mldonkey. It seems to be a problem with the network > stack, but i'm too unexperienced in this matter to find out more, but > it always happens when doing "too much" network traffic. > And: this notebook is running 5.4-RELEASE-p5 currently, so it doesn't > seem to be a -CURRENT matter... > "me too". On 5.4, thinkpad X31. I've seen it happen when firing up cvsup, too. FWIW I'm using 108-bit WEP. -- Dan Pelleg