Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:03:23 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is there anyone who can look at, and possibly fix this? Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmom%2B2QpoLMWwZjB2D=1B-DFN5Ki9oNQsiHevX8JExNjhhQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAE2yjrr62t1%2BFJf8or_49G6_HAhuyKh4PvqmUhzJ6SPsP=pGFw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAE2yjrr62t1%2BFJf8or_49G6_HAhuyKh4PvqmUhzJ6SPsP=pGFw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi! Neither of those drivers have active maintainers in FreeBSD. I'm sorry. :( -a On 21 August 2014 11:59, Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com> wrote: > There was a bug filed about 7 months ago, with iwi crashing under heavy > usage. I am also hitting this bug under 10-stable. > > Things that trigger the bug are heavy two-way usage, such as > bittorrent/aria2c and X11-forwarding over my LAN. > > bug#185478 > > The original reporter had this bug under 10.0-RELEASE, and I was under > 10-stable. > > Took several reboots (and quite a bit of $HOME corruption as well) to track > down a semi-reliable way to reproduce the bug. > > It does not always trigger a kernel panic, but iwi will always die with > "iwi0: Firmware Error" and usually, attempting to restart netif will cause > the panic. Even restarting netif will not bring the system back. > > I've got a urtw0 usb dongle that I can sometimes get to work after the iwi0 > goes belly up, but not always.... (and for the record, I had tons of > trouble with urtw0 back in 9-current, and it was -never- made stable for > me...) > > With that said, however, iwi0 seems to be perfectly stable under OpenBSD > and various Linux distros, which makes me wonder if A) do we need a > different firmware version? or B) is there a problem with our > implementation of the driver? > > I'm happy to provide as much more information as I can (I'm currently not > running FreeBSD on this machine, but that is easily, and quickly remedied > if anyone wants to attempt a fix with me) > > Thanks, > Chuck Burns > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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