Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:56:53 -0600 From: Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com> To: Kevin Lo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect. Message-ID: <4EDC32F5.3020205@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ED846C1.5040109@gmail.com> References: <201110042008.48915.break19@gmail.com> <201110071816.17335.break19@gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmok3m4jZ3CKwVajDdo-8wfN0niocNdjWcQWawof6QyZ0aw@mail.gmail.com> <201110071936.50071.break19@gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=tng00vkd91jhodaiJtnZCktUyKEhqCMik3zcJFuS4eg@mail.gmail.com> <CAE2yjroY%2BA3g6%2BVVP6ZeEDArVyjj0KVZCMK4mgg2MXQZnwvjZg@mail.gmail.com> <1322792905.1975.3.camel@esl.kevlo.org> <4ED846C1.5040109@gmail.com>
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On 12/01/11 21:32, Chuck Burns wrote: > On 12/01/11 20:28, Kevin Lo wrote: >> Hi Chuck, >> >> I committed the fix to HEAD(r228195). Not sure if it's >> related, would you please give it a try and let me know >> the result? Thank you. >> >> Kevin >> > > Hmm.. I will have to install the new current onto another hard drive, so > I will probably give that a try sometime this week. I had finally just > broken down and ran a ethernet cable across the floor. :) > > Let me get current installed and running.. Problem is, we won't know for > -certain- if we've gotten it, because it would sometimes run for a week > before crashing. > > I will, however, give a try (It's sort of late, tonight, so that's a no go) > Alright, I bumped my box up to 10-current, on the GENERIC kernel.. and it ran fine, for two days. In dmesg, I got a notice that "wlan0: Link is down." and no more connection. service netif restart didn't help, killing wpa_supplicant, and running it manually didn't help, kldunloading the module caused a kernel panic.. This time, however, I was able to get a full system dump.. I have the entire contents of /var/crash compressed into a 150MiB tar.gz file, give me a place to put it, and I will do so. (My web host isn't thrilled with me using them as a dropbox.) -- Chuck Burns The Southern Libertarian http://www.thesouthernlibertarian.com/
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