Re: [head up!] WiFi drivers changes

2015-08-09 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > As part of the "opaque ifnet project" [1], all 802.11 (WiFi) drivers > undergo change of not being an interface anymore. Historically in FreeBSD > 802.11 stack, 802.11 devices called if_attach() and created an interface. > Later this was generalized and

Reproducible IPSEC panic head r254660 ipsec6_output_tunnel() - encif is NULL.

2013-09-09 Thread Gavin Atkinson
panic. So, how is this supposed to work? Who is supposed to be creating the enc0 interface? Thanks, Gavin -- Gavin Atkinson FreeBSD committer and bugmeister GPG: A093262B (313A A79F 697D 3A5C 216A EDF5 935D EF44 A093 262B) ___ freebsd-net@freebsd

Re: freebsd for Sun Fire X4250

2010-01-14 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 11:45 +1100, Sam Wun wrote: > Hi Gavin, > > The reason I want to stick with i386 is because about few years ago > when I tried AMD release of FreeBSD, it didn't have the same level of > proficiency as i386 release of FreeBSD - packagThat was my impression > at that time. I ho

Re: freebsd for Sun Fire X4250

2010-01-11 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Sam Wun wrote: > This server is built with Xeon cpu processor, Intel based. > Can FreeBSD 8+ fully compatible with this server like those ordinary > Intel i386 machine? Although it's hard to say (the Sun website doesn't realy give enough spec details), I'd be surprised if it

Re: [PATCH] Remove if_watchdog use

2009-11-10 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 4:45:03 pm Gavin Atkinson wrote: I managed to get a panic when running wpa_supplicant: System call ioctl returning with the following locks held: exclusive sleep mutex an0 (network driver) r=0 (0xc58fc180) locked @ /usr/src

Re: [PATCH] Remove if_watchdog use

2009-11-10 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, John Baldwin wrote: I have a patchset that converts all the remaining users of if_watchdog to using a private callout instead. In some cases the the driver already used a private timer to drive a stats timer and I merely hooked into that timer. In other cases a new callout

Re: Backporting iwn(4): Success!

2008-09-22 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Gavin Atkinson wrote: I'm attempting to backport the iwn(4) driver for the Intel 4965 driver from -HEAD to RELENG_7 and am getting stuck with it at one particular point: WPA authentication times out. As a followup to this, with a bit of help from Sam Leffler, I&#

Re: Backporting iwn(4): WPA auth hangs... Help!

2008-09-21 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Gavin Atkinson wrote: I'm attempting to backport the iwn(4) driver for the Intel 4965 driver from -HEAD to RELENG_7 and am getting stuck with it at one particular point: WPA authentication times out. I've includewd the output with all options within wlandebug

Backporting iwn(4): WPA auth hangs... Help!

2008-09-21 Thread Gavin Atkinson
Hi all, I'm attempting to backport the iwn(4) driver for the Intel 4965 driver from -HEAD to RELENG_7 and am getting stuck with it at one particular point: WPA authentication times out. I've so far tried to both take the -HEAD driver and de-vapify etc. it, and also to take a pre-vap version

Re: kern/126564: [ath] doesn't work with my PCI-E X1 wireless

2008-08-18 Thread Gavin Atkinson
The following reply was made to PR kern/126564; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Gavin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: kern/126564: [ath] doesn't work with my PCI-E X1 wireless Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:11:58 +0100 (BST) -- Forwar

[Fwd: RE: kern/123166: [re] CARP messages filtered by Realtek driver on > 6.2]

2008-04-29 Thread Gavin Atkinson
The following reply was made to PR kern/123166; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Gavin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [Fwd: RE: kern/123166: [re] CARP messages filtered by Realtek driver on > 6.2] Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:13

Re: wpi results

2007-01-01 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Rene Ladan wrote: I build the wpi driver (version 20061109) on 7.0 CURRENT (20061229). It works fine, but it hangs my laptop after 'a while'. The only thing that keeps working is escaping to ddb. The laptop has the 4222 version of the wpi chipset. I'm working on the driv

Re: wpi (Intel 3945) driver

2006-12-31 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Steve Clement wrote: It throws quite a lot of 702 errors at me, especially when there is heavy traffic load! Yes, I need to look into these at some point. Also I am currently in Berlin at the CCC (events.ccc.de) and the WiFi traffic is quite heavy and I don't get a packe

Re: wpi (Intel 3945) driver

2006-12-25 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: I don't have the knowledge to work on it, but I'd like to test your version. I always had allocation issues with a wpi driver that was flying over and over threads and could never get it to work, so I really would like to test your one if you could upl

wpi (Intel 3945) driver

2006-12-25 Thread Gavin Atkinson
Hi all, Is anybody actively developing this driver? I've been debugging it for the last day or two and am now at the point where it's pretty stable for me (at least, I no longer get deadlocks and the issue of the firmware getting confused seems resolved). I have a load of other changes I in

vlan(4), bge(4) and bringing parent interface up

2005-10-01 Thread Gavin Atkinson
Hi, It seems to me that assigning an IP address to a vlan device (parent device bge0) isn't enough to get the interface working - I need to manually bring the parent interface up. Freshly rebooted system with no network configuration in /etc/rc.conf wiggum# uname -a FreeBSD wiggum.york.ac.uk 6.

Re: "ifconfig -vlandev" syntax

2005-09-25 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 14:37 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:41:05PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > As our ifconfig(8) is growing more options for special interface > > types, inconsistencies sneak into their syntax. In particular, > > -vlandev takes a usele

Re: ipfw broken with bridge under 5.x (5.3 and 5.4)

2005-05-07 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Josef Karthauser wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 06:13:22PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: I believe I am seeing similar problems to you, though uptime for me is generally measurable in days rather than minutes. I've found that adding an explicit "allow all from any t

Re: ipfw broken with bridge under 5.x (5.3 and 5.4)

2005-05-04 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 15:24 +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > It appear that ipfw doesn't work with bridge in 5.3 and 5.4. The > symptoms are that the bridge stops forwarding packets altogether, > for me a few minutes after it is set up. It takes a > > # net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=0 && sleep 5 &&

Re: ntp problems; am i the only one?

2002-04-15 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On 15 Apr 2002, Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > I did not pay much attention, but since a couple of weeks > (the latest "daylight savings in Europe") mu ntp > programs do not function anymore and host clocks > drift further and further (both for machines > I upgraded to -stable as for machines whic

How to detect link on unconfigered interface?

2002-03-27 Thread Gavin Atkinson
Hi, I have a problem I have so far been unsuccessful in solving. I want to detect if a particular network interface has a link, before this interface has an IP address configured. >From looking at the source to ifconfig, which successfully does this, the attached code should work, but doesn't.