From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 8 09:14:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5082E106566C for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:14:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com (mail-ew0-f211.google.com [209.85.219.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5488FC13 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:14:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so540058ewy.13 for ; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:14:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=h/0trU7VsClSK/wZcOklyCLrfVIGve0EFmeXe6aEMDU=; b=B4QZNmysGAgeVGcY/iFAeGlJGbZGSZ3wHkZbKBzzS35vrrKWCbCeFAM7k0fdnYRK1k 6Zhmg9cO7QjZW3hQfDlFxAMlAmn18ZGfuE6mJoiv20JEWHbsinb3vnuAc6I+swgk4ksj hnwx4Rt2qZzuXjX3yc6LISvI155D0QM5vBJeI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=LqOp6elMGE7/Og9DMiXV43/KyZO3tLtnVdfHwCMR0krWBEOGLbFxUgitc7iiZYzxCq aJroaKmpAJ82IrPFPNbsHaNTeLdLdVyPXE5Sm4CVK2bGRqOyyH2VLCyA+RUMRkwHGYVC AhIHKsCSb4mTC3yjXc48oTyRDyvc3zOMDydb4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.100.167 with SMTP id y39mr282438ebn.51.1260263652587; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:14:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B1DB42D.3090001@altadena.net> References: <4B1DB42D.3090001@altadena.net> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:14:12 +0100 Message-ID: <3a142e750912080114h7b77dfc3r35cd4803ea42fc0a@mail.gmail.com> From: Paul B Mahol To: Pete Carah Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atheros problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:14:14 -0000 On 12/8/09, Pete Carah wrote: > With a recent build of 8-stable (last week and again yesterday) the ath > 9280 driver doesn't work; wpa_supplicant says "scanning" forever, and if > one observes ifconfig it is scanning some of the 11a frequencies and no > 11g ones. It also doesn't pick up a legit 11a AP at home, nor does it see > *any* AP at work (there are about 12 visible from where I sit). The > card works in both fedora and windoze (though fedora has a very > annoying 7 second pause every minute or so (irregular intervals). > > I can stop wpa_supplicant and manually up it and give ifconfig scan; > this hangs forever and also only appears to be listing 11a freqs when you > look with ifconfig from another window. > > It had worked before... The only change that shows up in the ath driver > is "Add WorldB SKU" to ah_regdomain.c on the 25th. My previous > build was somewhere around the 17th so that must have broken it. A > cursory svn diff doesn't look bad to me but I only looked at the syntax. > And none of the net80211 files have changed since the 7th in my source tree. > > A second problem that also crept up in the most recent update Please separate problems (do not post about separate issues in same message). > (yesterday) one of 3 instances of acpi_ec0 causes a panic. If I specify > boot_verbose="YES" the panic goes away!! Since this is a laptop with no > serial port (any modern laptop :-( I can't capture the panic > directly, only copy it with a camera (aren't digital cameras > wonderful). Looking at the last message printed in verbose, I'm guessing an > access to a freed area; why verbose "fix"es it I don't know (maybe > printing reallocates?) > > This laptop has always given a string of error messages regarding its > ec0. (Acer 4730; dual-core 2gig intel cpu, intel chipset, running as amd64) > (I run 32-bit windoze but 64 bsd and linux.) Try # ifconfig wlan0 list scan and there is wlandebug(8) and athdebug (in tools if you have source)