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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:13:40 +0200
From:      Ilja Morozov <ilja@lynx.ee>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: iwi leaks memory?
Message-ID:  <20070216151340.sihitp1o8wwc8404@secure.lynx.ee>
In-Reply-To: <20070215143551.A94883@xorpc.icir.org>
References:  <op.tns7i21z0g54sc@localhost> <20070215143551.A94883@xorpc.icir.org>

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Hi guys,
today I had the same problems.

src/sys/dev/iwi/if_iwi.c,v 1.8.2.12 2007/01/23 22:17:48


Quoting Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>:

> will have a look at this.
> Which version of if_iwi.c are you using ?
>
> =09cheers
> =09luigi
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0200, V.Chukharev wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that iwi driver cannot survive more than just a few cycles =20
>>  of switching down/up.
>> In a place with a bad wireless connection I needed to do that quite =20
>>  a number of times
>> (that was the simplest way to restore connectivity I knew), and  =20
>> after 5-10 cycles I needed
>> to reboot my notebook totally.
>>
>> Can anybody with iwi (<Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG>) confirm (or  =20
>> better unconfirm)
>> that doing
>>
>>     for ii in `jot 100`; do sudo ifconfig iwi0 down; sleep 2; sudo  =20
>> ifconfig iwi0 up; done
>>
>> always results in the following messages (and lost connectivity):
>>
>> Feb 15 09:43:59 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to UP
>> Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN
>> Feb 15 09:44:18 chu kernel: iwi0: device timeout
>> Feb 15 09:44:20 chu kernel: iwi0: could not allocate firmware DMA memory
>>
>> A fix for this would be even better ;))
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> V. Chukharev
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Best regards,
  Ilja Morozov                          mailto:ilja@lynx.ee

Lynx Computers O"U
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