From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitri Seletski Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:17:15 +0000 Subject: [ath9k-devel] still same problem In-Reply-To: <200901180055.13949.listsrv@wilsoft.nl> References: <49601028.9030201@gmail.com> <43e72e890901031934n2ee6af46w9e9413ba5bf8f52a@mail.gmail.com> <4960882A.7090002@opteamax.de> <200901180055.13949.listsrv@wilsoft.nl> Message-ID: <4972BB5B.2040108@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org W. van den Akker wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009 10:58:02 Jens Ott - Opteamax wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb: >> >>> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Barry Green wrote: >>> [...] >>> We need an oops trace of your crashes so far it seems you have not >>> been able to get one, lets work on that. Until then it is not easy for >>> us to provide you with patches to fix your issues. >>> >> I also have similar problems with an D-LINK DWA-547 and I'd really like >> to provide the oops trace, but unfortunately the machine seems to hang >> that fast, that even no oops trace is shown. Also magic-sysreq don't >> work anymore, neither via serial console nor via keyboard. Only chance I >> have in this moment is to press reset-button, which already caused a >> full xfs-filsystem-corruption with dataloss once :-( >> >> My problem is, that the hang happens not immediately after loading the >> driver but "somewhen" while it is loaded. >> >> I have seen two types of crash: >> >> 1.) first investigations on my side seem to show that it happens, as >> soon as there is high dataload transfered, but I don't have detailed >> info yet. >> 2.) Running hostapd works fine while started first time, but no client >> is connected. When a client connects a system freeze occures >> "sometimes". Reproducably the system freezes immediately when starting >> hostapd, stop it and then restart hostapd. So every change in hostapd >> conf needs a full reboot, unloading the ath9k module and reload it does >> not prevent freeze, but after reboot I can start hostapd once without a >> problem (only the metioned "sometime" freezes on client connect or high >> data-volume). >> >> As this machine is productive, I suspended testing for now. I will >> change the card into a non-productive environment in the next days. As >> soon as I find more details, I'll report. >> >> >>> Please test with the latest drivers from >>> wireless-testing/compat-wireless and restart in single user mode, we >>> want to ensure X is not running at all and you are in a virtual >>> terminal. We also do not want Network Manager or wpa_supplicant >>> running in the background. To increase the resolution upon bootup try >>> booting with vga=ask (vga=791 works well for me), then try to >>> associate to your access point without encryption manually using >>> iwconfig. >>> >> Ok, that'll be a thing I'd need to test to, as in my case wpa_supplicant >> is running. >> >> > > Hi, > > What is the status of your problem? I still have problems with it and have no > progress... > > gr, > Willem > > Hello Willem. I think I have had similar issue to yours. Car was working for short period of time and after a while crashed computer. I was advised to change kernel version, i updated it to 2.6.27.9 and problem has gone away since. It's something to do with DMA. Perhaps try to upgrade kernel? Regards Dmitri