After upgrading my laptop do 3.7, I figured to give my Atheros wireless NIC a go. The card works, albeit only in 11b mode. While maybe not optimal, that is not really an issue. Besides, that would be a different thread.
It seems I'm not allowed to unplug the card from the PCMCIA slot. Doing so instantly provides a kernel panic. It does not appear to make a difference whether I have the card in up or down state, nor does enabling/disabling WEP seem to have an effect. Also, it does not matter whether I boot up with the card inserted: the problem also occurs when I plug in the card after booting. Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this issue. If anyone would like to see the registers' contents or a dump, please let me know. Cheers, Rogier Hooking up a serial console provides the following kernel output upon removing the card from the cardbus slot: # multiply freed item 0xd17a1000 panic: free: duplicated free Stopped at Debugger+0x4: leave RUN AT LEAST 'trace' AND 'ps' AND INCLUDE OUTPUT WHEN REPORTING THIS PANIC! DO NOT EVEN BOTHER REPORTING THIS WITHOUT INCLUDING THAT INFORMATION! ddb> ps PID PPID PGRP UID S FLAGS WAIT COMMAND 31309 1 31309 77 3 0x184 poll dhclient 7916 1 21009 0 3 0x86 poll dhclient 8109 1 8109 0 3 0x40184 select sendmail 25618 1 25618 0 3 0x4086 ttyin ksh 22707 1 22707 0 3 0x4086 ttyin getty 18776 1 18776 0 3 0x4086 ttyin getty 24590 1 24590 0 3 0x4086 ttyin getty 27271 1 27271 0 3 0x4086 ttyin getty 19488 1 19488 0 3 0x4086 ttyin getty 16778 1 16778 0 3 0x84 select cron 30646 1 30646 0 3 0x184 select inetd 6835 1 6835 0 3 0x84 poll ntpd 23907 1 3795 83 3 0x186 poll ntpd 11694 19357 19357 73 2 0x184 syslogd 19357 1 19357 0 3 0x84 netio syslogd 15 0 0 0 3 0x100204 crypto_wa crypto 14 0 0 0 3 0x100204 aiodoned aiodoned 13 0 0 0 3 0x100204 syncer update 12 0 0 0 3 0x100204 cleaner cleaner 11 0 0 0 3 0x100204 reaper reaper 10 0 0 0 3 0x100204 pgdaemon pagedaemon 9 0 0 0 3 0x100204 cardslote cardslot1 * 8 0 0 0 7 0x100204 cardslot0 7 0 0 0 3 0x100204 usbevt usb3 6 0 0 0 3 0x100204 usbevt usb2 5 0 0 0 3 0x100204 usbevt usb1 4 0 0 0 3 0x100204 usbtsk usbtask 3 0 0 0 3 0x100204 usbevt usb0 2 0 0 0 3 0x100204 kmalloc kmthread 1 0 1 0 3 0x4084 wait init 0 -1 0 0 3 0x80204 scheduler swapper ddb> trace Debugger(d0563264,0,e904ae1c,d17a1000,2) at Debugger+0x4 panic(d04dc2df,d17a1000,e904ae5c,d022434f,1) at panic+0x63 free(d17a1000,2,1,0,d17a1000) at free+0x40 ar5k_ar5212_detach(d17a1000,0,0,0,0) at ar5k_ar5212_detach+0x1d ath_detach(d179f000,0,202,d179f000) at ath_detach+0x63 ath_cardbus_detach(d179f000,0,10,22460,d05b23e0) at ath_cardbus_detach+0x1e config_detach(d179f000,0,0,d176e800) at config_detach+0x200 cardbus_detach_card(d176e780,7f,0,0,0) at cardbus_detach_card+0x2d cardslot_event_throw(d176e800) at cardslot_event_throw+0x12c Bad frame pointer: 0xd06d3e98 ddb> continue syncing disks... 16 14 done rebooting... Dmesg from the boot-up in question: >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.06 boot> boot booting hd0a:/bsd:4686240+945680 [52+241328+223324]=0x5d0864 entry point at 0x100120 [ using 465076 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2005 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC) #50: Sun Mar 20 00:01:57 MST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.80 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,SBF,EST,TM2 cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1800 MHz (1340 mV): speeds: 1800, 1600, 1400, 1200, 1000, 800, 600 MHz real mem = 1072988160 (1047840K) avail mem = 972591104 (949796K) using 4278 buffers containing 53751808 bytes (52492K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 09/07/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xffe90 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfc580/176 (9 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82371 ISA and IDE" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #4 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x10000 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82855PE Hub" rev 0x03 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82855PE AGP" rev 0x03 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Lf" rev 0x02 wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11 usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11 ehci0: EHCI version 1.0 ehci0: companion controllers, 2 ports each: uhci0 uhci1 uhci2 usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub3 at usb3 uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: single transaction translator uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0x81 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 bge0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5705M" rev 0x01, BCM5705 A1 (0x3001): irq 11 address 00:11:43:3b:c6:eb brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5705 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 1 cbb0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 vendor "O2 Micro", unknown product 0x7113 rev 0x20: irq 11 cbb1 at pci2 dev 1 function 1 vendor "O2 Micro", unknown product 0x7113 rev 0x20: irq 11 iwi0 at pci2 dev 3 function 0 "Intel PRO/2200BG 3B" rev 0x05: irq 11, address 00:0e:35:be:7c:51 cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0 cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 3 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0x20 pcmcia0 at cardslot0 cardslot1 at cbb1 slot 1 flags 0 cardbus1 at cardslot1: bus 4 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0x20 pcmcia1 at cardslot1 ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801DBM LPC" rev 0x01 pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801DBM IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA MK6026GAX> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 57231MB, 117210240 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <_NEC, DVD+RW ND-6100A, 104D> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801DB AC97" rev 0x01: irq 11, ICH4 AC97 ac97: codec id 0x83847650 (SigmaTel STAC9750/51) ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, 20 bit ADC, SigmaTel 3D audio0 at auich0 "Intel 82801DB Modem" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 31 function 6 not configured isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0 (mux 1 ignored for console): console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> sysbeep0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom0: console biomask ef6d netmask ef6d ttymask ffef pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support ath0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0 "3Com Corp., 3CRPAG175 Wireless LAN PC Card, ": irq 11 ath0: mac 80.6 phy 4.1 radio 1.7 2.3, 802.11a/b/g, WOR0W, address 00:0e:6a:d7:96:d4 gpio at ath0 not configured "O2Micro, SmartCardBus Reader, V1.0" at pcmcia1 function 0 not configured dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 ugen0 at uhub0 port 2 ugen0: Dell product 0x8000, rev 2.00/12.66, addr 2 Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks. /dev/rwd0a: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rwd0g: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rwd0e: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rwd0h: file system is clean; not checking /dev/rwd0i: 3982 files, 227072 free (276336 clusters) setting tty flags machdep.allowaperture: 0 -> 2 vm.swapencrypt.enable: 0 -> 1 starting network DHCPREQUEST on bge0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on bge0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.200.1 bound to 192.168.200.25 -- renewal in 43200 seconds. starting system logger starting rpc daemons: ntpd. savecore: no core dump checking quotas: done. building ps databases: kvm dev. clearing /tmp starting pre-securelevel daemons:. setting kernel security level: kern.securelevel: 0 -> 1 creating runtime link editor directory cache. preserving editor files starting network daemons: sendmail inetd. starting local daemons:. standard daemons: cron. Mon Jul 11 15:42:20 CEST 2005 -- If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.