iwi bricks my T43 on boot

Sergey Matveychuk sem at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 24 12:59:29 PDT 2006


Max Laier wrote:
> 
>> The problem has appeared when a new driver for ipw/iwi was introduced.
>>
>> A fresh CURRENT here. When the problem was firstly arised it was 6.0.
> 
> The new driver has never been in 6.0.

Well, I'm not quite sure here. May be it was CURRENT that time.

> 
>> Because my notebook bricked I can't get a core dump or a debugger.
>>
>> Any hints please how can I get more info on this?
> 
> Can you make sure you have a complete debugging kernel with WITNESS 
> enabled?  Setting debug.iwi could also reveal what's going on.  
> Unfortunately it's only a sysctl, not a tuneable, so you'd have to change 
> the default in sys/dev/iwi/if_iwi.c line 88 by hand and recompile your 
> kernel/module.  By the way, are you using iwi built in or as a module?  
> Do you load it via loader.conf or on demand from rc.d/*?
> 

I have WITNESS in my kernel. I'll try with debug.iwi.
I have iwi-firmware-kmod-3.0_1 port installed.

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