ar9285 on 9-stable reboots

[Adrian Chadd]

Ok. There's a bug on -9 which causes an ou of bounds address access
and write if the RX descriptor receive antenna is wrong. I wonder if
i's that.

File a PR and I'll throw patches at you to try. :)


Adrian


On 31 August 2012 02:34, Marko Cupać <marko.cupac at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is no 9 anymore :)
>
> I got hang again, first I lost IP address, and when doing ifconfig
> wlan0 destroy computer just froze, taking no input from keyboard, had
> to power it off.
>
> I noticed this has something to do with virtualbox, when using virtual
> machine with bridged network. I see messages:
>
> --
> wlan0: promiscuous mode enabled
> wlan0: link state changed to DOWN
> wlan0: link state changed to UP
> wlan0: promiscuous mode disabled
> --
>
> Last time when I lost IP address, I shut down virtualbox VM, and after
> that ifconfig wlan0 destroy && ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
> brought me back ip address without a hang.
>
> So the things are getting more complicated...
>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:15:18 -0700
> Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> .ok. Disable bgscan on 9.
>>
>> Adrian
>> On Aug 30, 2012 7:11 AM, "Marko Cupać" <marko.cupac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:14:10 +0200
>> > Marko Cupać <marko.cupac at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:01:38 -0700
>> > > Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > On 29 August 2012 12:08, Marko Cupać <marko.cupac at gmail.com>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > I could give -HEAD a spin, although I rather wouldn't as this
>> > > > > is my work laptop which i spent 2 month customizing (openbox
>> > > > > and all). I am afraid -HEAD could maybe fix my wifi, but
>> > > > > bring me much many other problems.
>> > > >
>> > > > Are you able to just setup a separate partition?
>> > > >
>> > > > > I do not see kernel panic, it just instantly resets. Do I
>> > > > > need to set dumpdev to something other than "NO" in rc.conf?
>> > > >
>> > > > I've no idea what's going on; but I haven't really played with
>> > > > ath(4) on 64 bit hardware all that much. People keep telling me
>> > > > it works fine though.
>> > > >
>> > > > Would you be able to setup a -HEAD partition and try it out?
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Adrian
>> > >
>> > > OK, I am going to rebuild world today and see if there are
>> > > any improvements. Will keep you updated. BTW laptop is ASUS N53J.
>> > >
>> > > Marko
>> >
>> > I am writing this from -HEAD. Since last 4 hours I did not have any
>> > hangs. I see new messages related to ath:
>> >
>> > http://pastebin.com/nQng8yjJ
>> >
>> > Marko
>> >
>