iwn firmware instability with an up-to-date stable kernel

[Garrett Cooper]

2010/4/18 Olivier Cochard-Labbé <olivier at cochard.me>:
> 2010/4/18 Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at techwires.net>:
>> Are you able to reproduce this on demand? As in type a few commands and
>> the firmware error occurs?
>>
>
> No, I'm not able to reproduce on demand this problem.

I'm seeing similar issues on occasion with my Lenovo as well:

Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: firmware error log:
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: error type      =
"NMI_INTERRUPT_WDG" (0x00000004)
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: program counter = 0x0000046C
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: source line     = 0x000000D0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: error data      = 0x0000000207030000
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: branch link     = 0x00008370000004C2
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: interrupt link  = 0x000006DA000018B8
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: time            = 4287402440
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: driver status:
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  0: qid=0  cur=1   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  1: qid=1  cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  2: qid=2  cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  3: qid=3  cur=36  queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  4: qid=4  cur=123 queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  5: qid=5  cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  6: qid=6  cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  7: qid=7  cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  8: qid=8  cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  9: qid=9  cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring 10: qid=10 cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring 11: qid=11 cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring 12: qid=12 cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring 13: qid=13 cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring 14: qid=14 cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring 15: qid=15 cur=0   queued=0
Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: rx ring: cur=8

This may be because the system was under load (I was installing a port
shortly before the connection dropped). I'll try poking at this
further because it's going to be an annoying productivity loss :/.

Thanks,
-Garrett