From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 17:23:48 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 48B7D1065674 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:23:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from radmanly@comcast.net) Received: from qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B828FC20 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:23:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.43]) by qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id b5KY1g0020vp7WLAA5PnuE; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:23:47 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.108] ([24.245.56.44]) by omta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id b5Pl1g00Y0xErkQ8R5PmR7; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:23:47 +0000 Message-ID: <4DB30B21.2040100@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:23:45 -0500 From: Rad Manly User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110313 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd References: <604029735.3207053.1303442079526.JavaMail.root@sz0005a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Hardware error, resetting" on Atheros AR9285 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: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:23:48 -0000 I updated from -HEAD and rebuilt the driver. It looks good! No errors! I never had powerd enabled. I won't even try until you say it's ready. What was the problem? Do you still need me to open a bug report? Thanks! Rad On 04/23/11 01:58, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 22 April 2011 11:14, wrote: > >> Several of us on the FreeBSD forum are having the same problem with the ath driver on the AR9285 chip. The driver loads fine but whenever I bring up an interface, I get "Hardware error, resetting" messages on the screen over and over again, roughly one a second. One user, Claude, reports he upgraded to -STABLE to no avail. I describe the problem in more detail in this thread: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=23297 >> >> Is there anything else I should try before I open a bug report? > Hi, > > I've committed a fix to -HEAD which should fix the spurious bad > interrupt handling you were seeing. > > I'd suggest updating to the latest -HEAD and trying it out. > > Please note that power saving stuff in -HEAD for at least the AR5416 > and later chips (AR9160, AR9220, AR9280, AR9285, AR2427) is known to > be busted. Please retry without powerd enabled to see if it's actually > a power saving related issue. > > > > Adrian >