Atheros 5212

[Sam Leffler]

Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
> 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.
> 

I don't know what livelock means in this case.  I believe current is 
missing a lock when clearing the node table and I haven't committed code 
to the crypto modules to track dynamic references and disallow unloads 
but any of these will cause a panic not a lockup.

	Sam