[urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

[Chuck Burns]

On 12/01/11 21:32, Chuck Burns wrote:
> On 12/01/11 20:28, Kevin Lo wrote:
>> Hi Chuck,
>>
>> I committed the fix to HEAD(r228195). Not sure if it's
>> related, would you please give it a try and let me know
>> the result? Thank you.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>
> Hmm.. I will have to install the new current onto another hard drive, so
> I will probably give that a try sometime this week. I had finally just
> broken down and ran a ethernet cable across the floor. :)
>
> Let me get current installed and running.. Problem is, we won't know for
> -certain- if we've gotten it, because it would sometimes run for a week
> before crashing.
>
> I will, however, give a try (It's sort of late, tonight, so that's a no go)
>

Alright, I bumped my box up to 10-current, on the GENERIC kernel.. and 
it ran fine, for two days.  In dmesg, I got a notice that "wlan0: Link 
is down." and no more connection. service netif restart didn't help, 
killing wpa_supplicant, and running it manually didn't help, 
kldunloading the module caused a kernel panic..

This time, however, I was able to get a full system dump..  I have the 
entire contents of /var/crash compressed into a 150MiB tar.gz file, give 
me a place to put it, and I will do so.  (My web host isn't thrilled 
with me using them as a dropbox.)

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Chuck Burns
The Southern Libertarian
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