SPAM-LOW: Re: Atheros 5212 based card causing system freeze - suggested replacement?

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi, have you had a chance to try your system with < 4G ram?


Thanks,

Adrian

On 30 August 2011 18:31, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 30 August 2011 15:21, Geoff Roberts <geoff at apro.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately booting from the 32 bit 8.2-R i386 system froze when loading
>> the ath driver. Same as the 64 bit system.
>
> That's not good. :(
>
>> The new system (apart from a new motherboard, CPU and architecture :)) also
>> has more than 4GB  RAM installed. I guess in theory the 32 bit kernel should
>> take that out of the equation.
>
> Can you please take out memory above 2GB and let me know what happens?
>
>> Is there any other debug information I can help with, or is this looking
>> more like an intractable low-level PCI/BIOS/Firmware interface issue?
>
> Nope; I'd like to figure out why it's not working..
>
>
> adrian
>