Re: if_em problems, both 7 and 8-stable

2010-06-21 Thread Pete Carah
On 06/19/2010 08:26 PM, Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Pete Carah wrote: > >> I cannot successfully create a vlan on if_em on either releng 7 or releng 8; >> I have seen a patch for part of >> the problem (checksum offsets end up incorrect) bu

if_em problems, both 7 and 8-stable

2010-06-19 Thread Pete Carah
I cannot successfully create a vlan on if_em on either releng 7 or releng 8; I have seen a patch for part of the problem (checksum offsets end up incorrect) but not all. Even turning off ALL hw_xxx flags leaves one unacceptable bug - the interface gets hard-reset any time you add or delete a vl

Re: atheros problem

2009-12-10 Thread Pete Carah
I found more - apparently 802.11a works (there are no 11a nodes at work, but the box connects at home where I have a dual-band AP.) So the problem I see is specific to g (and not auth mode since at work we have all of open, wpa, wpa2, wep visible.) wlandebug sheds no light on the problem. I stil

atheros problem

2009-12-07 Thread Pete Carah
With a recent build of 8-stable (last week and again yesterday) the ath 9280 driver doesn't work; wpa_supplicant says "scanning" forever, and if one observes ifconfig it is scanning some of the 11a frequencies and no 11g ones. It also doesn't pick up a legit 11a AP at home, nor does it see *any* A

Bug between DRM, MSI, or somewhere, re7-stable amd64

2009-06-08 Thread Pete Carah
I updated my recently acquired core-2 duo laptop to 7-stable amd64 (I had been running 7-stable i386 with few problems) and have acquired an apparent irq problem. Fortunately in debugging a linux shared-interrupt problem about a month ago I learned that the X server will happily accept mouse m

Re: Soekris 4801 hangs (was Re: Hangs, maybe a clue)

2009-02-02 Thread Pete Carah
cpghost wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 07:56:48PM -0500, Pete Carah wrote: I fixed the problem on my 4801's by having noticed a correlation with psm and hangs on my laptop, and thought there may be a LOR or such involving the keyboard driver and/or kbdmux. Since a 4801 has no need of

Re: Soekris 4801 hangs (was Re: Hangs, maybe a clue)

2009-02-01 Thread Pete Carah
I fixed the problem on my 4801's by having noticed a correlation with psm and hangs on my laptop, and thought there may be a LOR or such involving the keyboard driver and/or kbdmux. Since a 4801 has no need of those drivers, but *does* contain the hardware they control, just with no external pe

Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-(

2009-01-19 Thread Pete Carah
Well, following up on my own reply earlier, I csup'd releng_7 with a date of last dec 1; the result works fine in the laptop. I'll reload the eastern soekris tonight and see how it does. If the soekris is fine also then this gives a data point for whenever the bad commit(s) happened. I had a

Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-(

2009-01-19 Thread Pete Carah
I have done some (lots of) kernel debugging in the past. I have several points: 1. I shouldn't *have* to kernel debug for a normal usage of an official release. 2. One of the soekris boxes is 2800 MILES away, in a remote location, with noone present that is a skilled (or, indeed, any kind of) p

Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-(

2009-01-19 Thread Pete Carah
Kris writes: > You and anyone else seeing performance problems should try to work > through the advice given here: > [1]http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/Help_my_system_is_slow.pdf Well, all the people in this thread have noticed that WITH NO CONFIG CHANGES f rom configs that worke

Hangs, maybe a clue

2009-01-18 Thread Pete Carah
I've had some mysterious hangs which I notice that several others have too. Two of the machines in question are Soekris 4801's running as routers; this is hard to handle ddb with (though possible for one of them...) I started noticing this sometime in December. My laptop finally hung in a state w

Re: ATA oddness

2001-03-11 Thread Pete Carah
Hopefully sos reads this list? Following up my own note - I see the following in the code, none of which came out in my verbose dmesg: if (bootverbose) ata_printf(scp, device, "%s setting UDMA2 on Cyrix chip\n", (error) ? "failed" : "su