iwi lockup problem on 6.0-BETA4

[Christian Laursen]

Marcin Jessa <lists at yazzy.org> writes:

> This happened to me as well.
> After update from a couple of days back (6.0-BETA4) it seems to be working fine.
> And it does not constantly disconnect from my AP as it used to before.
> Trying to make it connect back made my laptop reboot. Now I can even reconnect changing SSID's or after I lost contact with the AP.
> Give it a try and let me know.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to make any difference.

> On 18 Sep 2005 10:03:31 +0200
> Christian Laursen <xi at borderworlds.dk> wrote:
> 
> > I am having a problem using the iwi driver on my laptop.
> > 
> > Basically I would normally setup the network with this command:
> > ifconfig iwi0 inet 10.2.0.3 netmask 255.255.0.0 ssid borderworlds mode 11g channel 3
> > 
> > but that makes the laptop freeze and a hard reset is the only way to
> > get it back to life.
> > 
> > By experimenting a little I found that this sequence of commands works:
> > 
> > ifconfig iwi0 inet 10.2.0.3 netmask 255.255.0.0
> > sleep 5
> > ifconfig iwi0 ssid borderworlds
> > sleep 5
> > ifconfig iwi0 mode 11g
> > sleep 5
> > ifconfig iwi0 channel 3
> > 
> > I tried sleep 1 at first but that made the laptop freeze after setting
> > mode 11g.
> > 
> > By enabling the software watchdog I can make it panic instead of
> > freezing, but the backtrace I get from the dump looks useless (at least
> > to me).
> > 
> > The dmesg is at http://borderworlds.dk/~xi/andorian.dmesg
> > The trace is at http://borderworlds.dk/~xi/andorian.trace
> > 
> > I am not sure how to further debug this so any help would be
> > appreciated.
> > 
> > I will try the latest RELENG_6 next and see if it makes any difference.

-- 
Christian Laursen