FreeBSD TDMA kernel PANIC

Kyungsoo Lee ulsanrub at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 16:13:35 UTC 2011


Thank you for your answer. I'll try Adrian's fix.

K.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at freebsd.org>wrote:

> On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 03:49:41 Kyungsoo Lee wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > whenever I try to set my mini PCI-e card (Anatel AR5BXB6) as Master
> > (tdmaslot 0), kernel shows PANIC msg like the below.
> > It's OK when I set the card as not Master like tdmalsot 1,2, and more.
> What
> > is the problem? And how can I fix it?
> >
> > Interestingly, the kernel PANIC occurs when I use this card with IBM T60.
> > When I use this card with IBM T61, there is no PANIC message like the
> below.
> > Instead, kernel shows never ending "Ath0: Stuck beacon; bmiss..."
> messages.
> >
> > How can I solve the problem? I searched but it is hard to find the answer
> > for my cases.
>
> The panic doesn't seem to be related to ath(4) or do you see ath or
> wlan in the backtrace?
>
> Adrian fixed a few issues regarding stuck beacons in head, you might
> wanna try this.
>
> Also, your last post said you configured the device with
> % ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 wlanmode tdma tdmaslot 0 up
> This is either not the whole truth or you should definitely set a SSID
> as otherwise no network will be opened.
>
> --
> Bernhard
>


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