malo causes sig 12 error and panic on Freebsd 7.2-PRERELEASE (7-STABLE)

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 3/28/09, John <lists at reiteration.net> wrote:
> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> On 3/28/09, John <lists at reiteration.net> wrote:
>>> Weongyo Jeong wrote:
>>>
>>>> It looks something goes wrong so could you please patch if_malo_pci.c
>>>> manually it's a very simple patch and test?  Sorry for inconvenience.
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Now I get:
>>>
>>> sudo kldload /boot/kernel/if_malo.ko
>>> kldload: can't load /boot/kernel/if_malo.ko: Exec format error
>>>
>>> [john at potato ~]$ kldstat
>>> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>>>  1    8 0xffffffff80100000 7c26c0   kernel
>>>  2    1 0xffffffff80a22000 95a      pflog.ko
>>>  3    1 0xffffffff80a23000 2ae44    pf.ko
>>>  4    1 0xffffffff80a4e000 189ac    linux.ko
>>>  5    1 0xffffffff80a67000 aa7a     fuse.ko
>>
>> How you compiled new kernel/module?
>> This can mean only one thing: you messed something up or
>> you are using wrong sources.
>>
>
> It's because the other module wasn't loaded - I didn't see the console
> as I was logged in remotely.
>
> The console showed this:
>
> KLD if_malo.ko: depends on malofw_fw - not available.
>
> So I went back into where the openbsd firmware was and kldloaded

You should use this version of firmware:
           http://weongyo.org/project/malo/malo-firmware-1.4.tar.gz

> malofw.ko which succeeded. Then I tried with the (now modified)
> if_malo.ko and got this from the console:
>
> malo0: <Marvell Libertas 88W8335 802.11g Wireless Adapter> mem
> 0xfddd0000-0xfddd
> ffff,0xfdde0000-0xfddeffff irq 20 at device 6.0 on pci2
> malo0: [FILTER]
> malo0: unable to allocate memory for cmd buffer, error 12
> malo0: unable to attach HAL
> device_attach: malo0 attach returned 5
>
> However, the modifications suggested by Weongyo Jeong have made a
> difference in the right direction because the error no longer causes a
> panic.
>
> Now, kldstat gives:
>
> [john at potato ~]$ kldstat
> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>   1   22 0xffffffff80100000 7c26c0   kernel
>   2    1 0xffffffff80a22000 95a      pflog.ko
>   3    1 0xffffffff80a23000 2ae44    pf.ko
>   4    2 0xffffffff80a4e000 189ac    linux.ko
>   5    1 0xffffffff80a67000 aa7a     fuse.ko
>   6    1 0xffffffff80a72000 359b     linprocfs.ko
>   7    2 0xffffffff80a76000 1e1ce    malofw.ko
>   8    1 0xffffffff80a95000 63c4     if_malo.ko
>   9    1 0xffffffff80a9c000 551b5    radeon.ko
> 10    1 0xffffffff80af2000 113d0    drm.ko
>
> but I can't see it in ifconfig -a.
>
> I haven't got a source problem - of that I'm quite sure. World was made
> only a few days ago, cvsup runs every night, the sources got are those
> I'd expect from following RELENG_7. There is a file in the source tree
> that has this information but right now I'm at a loss as to what it's
> called.
> --
> John
>


-- 
Paul