From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 02:56:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F78106564A; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 02:56:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from break19@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC7DF8FC19; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 02:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenm2 with SMTP id m2so2007677yen.13 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:56:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=V/9Grr7gAAfaDb/0mWJJJQRy6kvRuSd/ufF9WGg2Rco=; b=dBbuDdHWVi22UxZ0HWZ7cLc6xettMW8YyXSnpBXBzEd26nqYzH7D7tu856fePkcajk kYqX6/fj6yUwuNyf0CfJBO2AwVjZSCk3kh3hDcdWpCKO9z6o8MgEvEq7JxrgDrZ1ZKkj xzOUQ09ehxoEBbJWt5XlT4DgrvllH9lPR+Wfo= Received: by 10.236.189.97 with SMTP id b61mr8680105yhn.116.1323053815272; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:56:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.4.101] (c-98-230-64-224.hsd1.al.comcast.net. [98.230.64.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q52sm7960117yhh.3.2011.12.04.18.56.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:56:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EDC32F5.3020205@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:56:53 -0600 From: Chuck Burns Organization: The Southern Libertarian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111129 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Lo , freebsd-net@freebsd.org References: <201110042008.48915.break19@gmail.com> <201110071816.17335.break19@gmail.com> <201110071936.50071.break19@gmail.com> <1322792905.1975.3.camel@esl.kevlo.org> <4ED846C1.5040109@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ED846C1.5040109@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect. X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:56:56 -0000 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/