Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:13:22 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change for the worse in rsu wireless driver Message-ID: <538C2412.4030600@selasky.org> In-Reply-To: <792139.75850.bm@smtp112.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <792139.75850.bm@smtp112.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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On 06/02/14 07:30, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I sent this message, without this top part, over an hour ago, and notice wlan0 is still up. I intended but forgot to CC to freebsd-current. But I am in newcons, having not started X so far this boot session. Maybe something rotten with Xorg, or interaction between rsu and X, or rsu and Firefox. > > I am afraid to try again with X, don't want to mess the file system to the extent of losing data. > > WLAN device is Hiro H50191 USB wireless adapter, chipset RTL8191SU. > > I just updated FreeBSD-current, both amd64 and i386, now both rsu and Xorg are highly unstable, at least on amd64. > > FreeBSD amelia4 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #6 r266948: Sun Jun 1 19:12:44 UTC 2014 root@amelia4:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY11NC amd64 > > root@amelia4:~ # ls -l /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/wlan > > total 1164 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 65759 Jun 1 16:23 if_rsu.c > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 19964 Jun 1 16:23 if_rsureg.h > > (snip) > > This is a change for the worse. Now I can connect with Hiro H50191; bug in re Ethernet driver persists, so I can't connect that way. > > I also had several crashes in Xorg, so am typing this with vi in newcons. > > Tom Hi, Re-compile the rsu module with USB debugging enabled: Add to: sys/modules/usb/rsu/Makefile CFLAGS+= -DUSB_DEBUG Rebuild and install. After that lookup the debug knob using "sysctl hw.usb | grep rsu" and set it to 16. Then collect some debug messages in dmesg, when problems appear. Thank you. --HPS
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