[ath9k-devel] ath9k deadbeef

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 01/07/2011 10:05 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Brian Prodoehl wrote:
>> I'm adding the WARN_ON that I talked about to my tree,
>
> Where can I grab that commit?
>
>
>> and will post whatever code paths I'm seeing traversed while the
>> chip is sleeping.
>
> They end up in kernel log, right?
>
>
> I'm inspired by the recent dialogue and am just about to reboot to
> wireless-testing master-2011-01-05 and try to live with it for a
> while.
>
>
> Linus' 2010-12-30 master locks up hard.
>
> Happened within one second of associating while in X, tried first
> with iw connect, then with wpa_supplicant. I use KMS.
>
> Third try I remained in console mode, shut down X, and could then
> work over wifi and listen to streaming for a while, maybe ten or
> fifteen minutes. After the third hard lock and a power cycle the
> kernel says:
>
> [    0.375411] pci 0000:02:02.0: [0000:0004] type 4 class 0x000004
> [    0.375416] pci 0000:02:02.0: unknown header type 04, ignoring device
>
> After this I usually need to power cycle a couple of times to get the
> card responding again on the bus. This card was installed brand new
> from ESD bag, clearly without marks on the miniPCI card edge
> contacts.
>
> Hard lock of course means no debug messages. :\ Note not kernel
> panic, just CPU stop. Suspect PCI problem. Would be nice to have
> a miniPCI proxy card that I could hook logic analyzer to.
>
> Well, this is as it has been, more to come with wireless-testing..

I assume you tried sysrq when it locked hard?

Also, can you try that same NIC in different hardware?

What NIC are you using?

Thanks,
Ben

>
>
> //Peter
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