On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Sascha Klauder wrote:
I've recently upgraded my 6.2-STABLE workstation to RELENG_7, and I'm now experiencing system lockups that seem to be caused by the hifn(4) driver. I've got a Soekris vpn1401 card to help with GELI disk en- cryption. Reading from a GELI volume is causing the system to freeze completely, which does not happen if software crypto is used (i.e. hifn.ko not loaded). I can't enter kernel debugger (ctrl+alt+esc doesn't work anymore) and my (remote) kgdb-fu isn't up to par anyway.
I've had the exact same kind of issue with the vpn1401 PCI card in a Dell box for my firewall running pfSense (at the tie it was based on FreeBSD 6.1 I believe). It would lock up the firewall within 2 hours to 4 days of uptime. Once we removed the card, no lockups. Soekris never responded to my questions about such behavior.
In contrast, their mini-PCI cards I have installed on some WRAP boards never lockup using the same software.
I blame the card. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"