Kernel panic due atheros driver after finalsync (Was: VIA VT6103 support (VIA EPIA PD))

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Mon Oct 24 01:39:37 PDT 2005


On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Jan Mikael Melen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have the D-Link DWL-G520 which has the atheros 5212 chip. When rebooting the
> FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5 after the final sync kernel panics. If the if_ath module has
> not been loaded in to the memory all works fine. Does anyone have any good
> idea how to get rid of this problem? Unloading the kernel module will cause
> the whole system to halt totally, the system does not respond to anything
> except power button and reset ;)

>From what you pasted, the problem appears to be that ath0 and vr0 share an 
interrupt, ath0 is triggering a late interrupt, and vr0 can't handle it.

I think someone might've fixed the problem in -current, you should check 
the cvs history for if_vr.c.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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