ipw driver causes total system freeze

Pedro Pinto ppinto at cs.cmu.edu
Sun Jan 9 05:33:09 PST 2005


I can confirm the same problem on my t41.
-p


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>Message: 2
>Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:20:39 -0500
>From: "Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org>
>Subject: ipw driver causes total system freeze
>To: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
>Message-ID: <41E03287.21020.79EFA8EC at localhost>
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>Hi folks,
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>I've had about 6 total system freezes requiring a power cycle on my 
>FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE with ipw-freebsd-1.6.3.tgz. All freezes have 
>occurred when running xorg-6.8.1 and KDE
>
>The main issue in common is ssh sessions. From memory, each freeze 
>occuring during one of the following actions:
>
>1 - ssh session (either ssh or putty) that encounters a large amount 
>of screen traffic (e.g cat a large file)
>2 - switching from/to an rdesktop session.
>
>Freezes are total. Keyboard control-alt-delete does not work. 
>Function keys will not take me to another console. Mouse cursor will 
>not move.
>
>I'm now running on ndis to see what's going on.
>
>My laptop is an IBM ThinkPad T41. 
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Originally posted at:
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>http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/forum/read.php?f=1&i=432&t=432
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