ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

Joshua Isom jrisom at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 00:34:30 UTC 2013


And it did cause problems with 8GB before IIRC.

On 4/2/2013 7:28 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Nono, they're free. There's no active pages after an unload. Thus, they're fine.
>
> Ok, so now I need to go and audit things in more depth.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
> On 2 April 2013 17:24, Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hw.busdma.total_bpages: 8250
>> hw.busdma.zone0.total_bpages: 8250
>> hw.busdma.zone0.free_bpages: 8250
>> hw.busdma.zone0.reserved_bpages: 0
>> hw.busdma.zone0.active_bpages: 0
>> hw.busdma.zone0.total_bounced: 3836
>> hw.busdma.zone0.total_deferred: 0
>> hw.busdma.zone0.lowaddr: 0xffffffff
>> hw.busdma.zone0.alignment: 4096
>>
>> They'd not freed.
>>
>>
>> On 4/2/2013 5:33 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, can you:
>>>
>>> * bring the interface down cleanly (ifconfig wlan0 down);
>>> * unload the ath driver (kldunload if_ath and kldunload if_ath_pci)
>>> * sysctl hw.busdma, and just add it to the list here?
>>>
>>> I'd like to make sure that it's freeing all the bounce buffer pages.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> adrian
>>>
>>



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