6.1-stable + Wireless + ndiswrapper kernel crash

[Athanasios Zorbas]

Hello all,

I am experiencing a very strange problem with FreeBSD 6.1-stable. I do
not know if this could be a bug report, so please tell me what you
think.

I have a D-Link G520+ wireless card configured and running with
ndiswrapper. The network seems stable and if there is not many network
traffic, the interface will run for days.

However, I have noticed that problems appear when there is a lot of
network traffic for a big amount of time. I have noticed this when
transferring files via NFS or scp. An exact same problem I found in
the mailing list:

Message-ID:  <44E0B1AA.3080707 at gmx.net>
Subject:   6.1-Stable + named & ndis + nfsd == System crash ?

After experimenting quite a bit, I can know reproduce a kernel crash.

my setup involves 2 machines:
a Linux Machine (linux)
the FreeBSD 6.1 machine (freebsd)

I can flood ping (ping -f) the linux machine from the freebsd just
fine and there is no problem whatsoever.

However, and here is the tricky part, if I login from linux to the
freebsd machine via ssh and then do a flood ping from the freebsd to
linux machine, I get a system crash.

It is noteworthy that I have done some experiments with the wireless
card running on Linux and no problems occur, so I do not think there
is a bug in the Windows driver supplied with the card.

Please note that I am not an experienced FreeBSD user, I am know
learning the insights of it.

Thank you all in advance for your support.

Some information about my system:

uname:
FreeBSD rugad.lan 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Tue Oct 10
01:44:03 EEST 2006
than at rugad.lan:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC  i386

pciconf:
ndis0 at pci0:10:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x3b041186 chip=0x9066104c
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Texas Instruments (TI)'
    device   = 'TNETW1130(ACX111) 802.11b/g Wireless Cardbus/PCI Adapter'
    class    = network

the kernel crash:
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/usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"]
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Unread portion of the kernel message buffer:


Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address   = 0x14
fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
instruction pointer     = 0x20:0xc069dbe0
stack pointer           = 0x28:0xd13deac4
frame pointer           = 0x28:0xd13deaf4
code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
                        = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process         = 2242 (Windows DPC 0)
trap number             = 12
panic: page fault
Uptime: 13h20m50s
Dumping 255 MB (2 chunks)
  chunk 0: 1MB (160 pages) ... ok
  chunk 1: 255MB (65280 pages) 240 224 208 192 176 160 144 128 112 96
80 64 48 32 16

#0  doadump () at pcpu.h:165
165             __asm __volatile("movl %%fs:0,%0" : "=r" (td));
(kgdb)