Atheros 5212

[Giovanni P. Tirloni]

Sam Leffler wrote:
> Kevin Downey wrote:
> 
>> I am running a generic kernel with all the debugging knobs.
>> if I use BitTorrent or Gnutella in X the computer reboots after a few 
>> minutes.
>>
>>> From the console it drops into the debugger deal. But will not give me
>>
>> a crash dump.
> 
> 
> The stack trace below isn't a crash, it's just witness warning about a 
> malloc w/ WAITOK while holding a lock.
> 
> Try updating to BETA2 and getting a trace from the crash.  Then also 
> provide basic info like what you're trying to do at the time.  It 
> appears you're trying to use wpa_supplicant w/ WPA based on the stack 
> trace.

  I've an Atheros 5212 on my laptop and it's working with 6.0-BETA2. I'm 
using just WEP.

  What I've witnessed is that unloading the module livelocks the machine 
so I decided to compile it in the kernel. It's been working just fine.

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Giovanni P. Tirloni / gpt at tirloni.org