Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-12-06 Thread Chuck Burns
It crashed again earlier, and I have another trace for you. My wifi died, and I tried service netif restart. It refused to associate to the WAP. Unplugging the dongle then caused a kernel panic, attached is the core.txt file from the dump. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-12-05 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 14:44, Chuck Burns wrote: > freebeast dumped core - see /var/crash/vmcore.0 > Sun Dec  4 14:58:49 CST 2011 > FreeBSD freebeast 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #4 r228221: Sat > Dec  3 09:10:37 CST 2011 > toor@freebeast:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 > panic: > .. > #9

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-12-05 Thread Chuck Burns
freebeast dumped core - see /var/crash/vmcore.0 Sun Dec  4 14:58:49 CST 2011 FreeBSD freebeast 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #4 r228221: Sat Dec  3 09:10:37 CST 2011 toor@freebeast:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 panic: GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.GDB

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-12-05 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 05.12.2011 9:29, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > Can you please just fire up kgdb and get a backtrace from the core? There should be core.X.txt file, usually it already has a backtrace. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-12-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Can you please just fire up kgdb and get a backtrace from the core? Adrian ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-12-04 Thread Chuck Burns
On 12/01/11 21:32, Chuck Burns wrote: On 12/01/11 20:28, Kevin Lo wrote: Hi Chuck, I committed the fix to HEAD(r228195). Not sure if it's related, would you please give it a try and let me know the result? Thank you. Kevin Hmm.. I will have to install the new current onto another hard drive

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-12-01 Thread Chuck Burns
On 12/01/11 20:28, Kevin Lo wrote: Hi Chuck, I committed the fix to HEAD(r228195). Not sure if it's related, would you please give it a try and let me know the result? Thank you. Kevin Hmm.. I will have to install the new current onto another hard drive, so I will probably give that

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-15 Thread PseudoCylon
> My system on the other hand just reports "No Carrier" in ifconfig, > even after resetting the router, and other devices in the home can see > it, and connect to it fine. > Can you #wlandebug -i wlan0 crypto+assoc+auth+scan and re-run wpa_supplicant when the link is droped? I wonder what is faili

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-13 Thread Chuck Burns
Some more information.. I had mentioned this issue to someone on the ##FreeBSD irc channel, and he said that his father uses the urtw driver, on an i386 system, also running 8.2, but has no issues with kernel panics, and the only drops that he knows is due to his router, and resetting the router so

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-11 Thread Chuck Burns
On Sunday, October 09, 2011 12:38:11 AM Chuck Burns wrote: > www.thesouthernlibertarian.com/kernel-urtw.tar.gz > > This has 4 files: > /boot/kernel/kernel[.symbols] > /boot/kernel/if_urtw.ko[.symbols] > > Thanks > Arnaud, Just following up to see if you grabbed the files yet, so I can remove th

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-11 Thread Chuck Burns
On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 1:04:59 AM you wrote: > > Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:02:15 -0500 > > From: Chuck Burns > > Subject: Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to > >reconnect. > > To: Gary Palmer > > Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-10 Thread PseudoCylon
> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:02:15 -0500 > From: Chuck Burns > Subject: Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to >        reconnect. > To: Gary Palmer > Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <201110061902.15838.brea...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: Te

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-08 Thread Chuck Burns
www.thesouthernlibertarian.com/kernel-urtw.tar.gz This has 4 files: /boot/kernel/kernel[.symbols] /boot/kernel/if_urtw.ko[.symbols] Thanks On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Chuck Burns wrote: >> Another crash image, this time at a

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi Chuck, I could help you with it but I honestly have no time at the moment. :( Adrian ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.or

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-08 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Chuck Burns wrote: > Another crash image, this time at a much larger resolution. > > Also, as you can see, it still failed to dump, stopped at 1%, never > went any higher than that. > > http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/43/anothercrash.jpg/ > > I guess no o

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-08 Thread Chuck Burns
Another crash image, this time at a much larger resolution. Also, as you can see, it still failed to dump, stopped at 1%, never went any higher than that. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/43/anothercrash.jpg/ I guess no one has any answers for this :( On 10/7/11, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 8

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 8 October 2011 08:36, Chuck Burns wrote: > I don't know what that means really.  I consider myself a fairly advanced > user, but nothing more, really. I'm going to need some help to help Chuck here. :) Any takers? Adrian ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.or

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-07 Thread Chuck Burns
On Friday, October 07, 2011 7:26:37 PM Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 8 October 2011 07:16, Chuck Burns wrote: > > This is the latest kernel panic screenshot.. > > > > http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/707/newcrashw.png/ > > Hm, it's crashing when calling ieee80211_process_callback(). > Is data->ni

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 8 October 2011 07:16, Chuck Burns wrote: > This is the latest kernel panic screenshot.. > > http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/707/newcrashw.png/ Hm, it's crashing when calling ieee80211_process_callback(). Is data->ni == NULL ? Adrian ___ freebs

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-07 Thread Chuck Burns
This is the latest kernel panic screenshot.. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/707/newcrashw.png/ Thanks, Chuck Burns ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fre

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-06 Thread Chuck Burns
On Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:30:46 PM Gary Palmer wrote: > Actually, that won't be enough. Sorry if I gave that idea. If you check > /etc/rc.d/dumpon then you'll see that if the script succeeds in telling > the kernel to dump on a given swap partition then it creates the > symlink in the /de

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-06 Thread Gary Palmer
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:02:15PM -0500, Chuck Burns wrote: > > Do you have a /dev/dumpdev symbolic link pointing to a swap partition? > > If not, the dump device may not have been configured. > > > > Also, apologies if you said this earlier, but which version of FreeBSD > > are you running? > >

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-06 Thread Chuck Burns
> Do you have a /dev/dumpdev symbolic link pointing to a swap partition? > If not, the dump device may not have been configured. > > Also, apologies if you said this earlier, but which version of FreeBSD > are you running? > > Gary I didn't have that link, but I just linked it to my 6G swap part

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-06 Thread Gary Palmer
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:56:41PM -0500, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 11:47:01 PM Adrian Chadd wrote: > > On 6 October 2011 07:50, Chuck Burns wrote: > > > Ok, it crashed this evening.. Got a snapshot of it with my wife's digital > > > camera.. > > > > > > http://imageshac

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-06 Thread Chuck Burns
On Thursday, October 06, 2011 12:02:41 AM you wrote: > * reconfigure the console to be 80x50 or 80x60? That way we can see > the whole panic message This is now done. > * can you please add some printfs() ? Just so we know the value of the > parameters being passed into that function? > > It so

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
Can you please do some changes: * reconfigure the console to be 80x50 or 80x60? That way we can see the whole panic message * can you please add some printfs() ? Just so we know the value of the parameters being passed into that function? It sounds like once the NIC goes into a "funny" state, it'

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-05 Thread Chuck Burns
On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 11:47:01 PM Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 6 October 2011 07:50, Chuck Burns wrote: > > Ok, it crashed this evening.. Got a snapshot of it with my wife's digital > > camera.. > > > > http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/851/kernelcrash.jpg/ > > > > There is a small "flas

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 6 October 2011 07:50, Chuck Burns wrote: > Ok, it crashed this evening.. Got a snapshot of it with my wife's digital > camera.. > > http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/851/kernelcrash.jpg/ > > There is a small "flash dot" as the camera's flash went off, but 99% of it is > readable. (thought I

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-05 Thread Chuck Burns
On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 7:49:49 AM Chuck Burns wrote: > On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 7:41:51 AM Adrian Chadd wrote: > > On 5 October 2011 20:09, Chuck Burns wrote: > > > I tried to get it to crash last night, by removing and reinserting the > > > adapter, and apparently it only does so wh

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-05 Thread Chuck Burns
On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 9:52:21 AM Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Gary Palmer wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:32:52PM -0500, Chuck Burns wrote: > >> On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:54:33 PM Chuck Burns wrote: > >> > >> > >> > I'm not sure how to rebu

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-05 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:32:52PM -0500, Chuck Burns wrote: >> On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:54:33 PM Chuck Burns wrote: >> >> > I'm not sure how to rebuild just the module with that option URTW_DEBUG >> > enabled.. I'm being told by som

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-05 Thread Gary Palmer
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:32:52PM -0500, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:54:33 PM Chuck Burns wrote: > > > I'm not sure how to rebuild just the module with that option URTW_DEBUG > > enabled.. I'm being told by some to just add the device to my kernel config > > along with the

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-05 Thread Chuck Burns
On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 7:41:51 AM Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 5 October 2011 20:09, Chuck Burns wrote: > > I tried to get it to crash last night, by removing and reinserting the > > adapter, and apparently it only does so when it stops working. > > Please post the crash information? > > >

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 5 October 2011 20:09, Chuck Burns wrote: > I tried to get it to crash last night, by removing and reinserting the > adapter, and apparently it only does so when it stops working. Please post the crash information? adrian ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.o

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-05 Thread Chuck Burns
On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 10:55:55 PM Adrian Chadd wrote: > I'd also like to see the crash information. Does it crash when you > remove the adapter _always_? Or just when it stops functioning? > > > adrian I tried to get it to crash last night, by removing and reinserting the adapter, and ap

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
I'd also like to see the crash information. Does it crash when you remove the adapter _always_? Or just when it stops functioning? adrian ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-04 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 9:41:22 PM Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >> >> You should now have message on the console, don't you ? >> > > > Actually. I'm not getting any more messages on my console than I have been > getting before.. > Lookin

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-04 Thread Chuck Burns
On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 9:41:22 PM Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > > You should now have message on the console, don't you ? > Actually. I'm not getting any more messages on my console than I have been getting before.. Some more information: FreeBSD blackbeast.local 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STAB

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-04 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:54:33 PM Chuck Burns wrote: > >> I'm not sure how to rebuild just the module with that option URTW_DEBUG >> enabled.. I'm being told by some to just add the device to my kernel config >> along with the line

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-04 Thread Chuck Burns
On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:54:33 PM Chuck Burns wrote: > I'm not sure how to rebuild just the module with that option URTW_DEBUG > enabled.. I'm being told by some to just add the device to my kernel config > along with the line "option URTW_DEBUG" .. but if there's a better way, let > me know

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-04 Thread Chuck Burns
On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:31:02 PM you wrote: > Hi, > could you report that panic, please ? Well.. if I could get the dump to actually happen, I could report it correctly, as it is, I will likely just have to take a picture of the screen when it happens again, although the last few times t

[urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-04 Thread Chuck Burns
I have a Netgear WG111v2 - which is a RealTek 8187 based usb 802.11G dongle, and which uses the if_urtw module. At random intervals, my internet connection just dies, I cannot ping the AP, am told "Network is down" by ping. The LED light on the adapter will have also gone out, and in dmesg, I g

Re: [urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-04 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, [Added driver author, Weongyo Jeong , to the CC: list] On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Chuck Burns wrote: >  have a Netgear WG111v2 - which is a RealTek 8187 based usb 802.11G dongle, > and which uses the if_urtw module. > > At random intervals, my internet connection just dies, I cannot pin

[urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-04 Thread Chuck Burns
I have a Netgear WG111v2 - which is a RealTek 8187 based usb 802.11G dongle, and which uses the if_urtw module. At random intervals, my internet connection just dies, I cannot ping the AP, am told "Network is down" by ping. The LED light on the adapter will have also gone out, and in dmesg, I g

[urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

2011-10-04 Thread Chuck Burns
have a Netgear WG111v2 - which is a RealTek 8187 based usb 802.11G dongle, and which uses the if_urtw module. At random intervals, my internet connection just dies, I cannot ping the AP, am told "Network is down" by ping. The LED light on the adapter will have also gone out, and in dmesg, I ge