SPAM-LOW: Re: Atheros 5212 based card causing system freeze - suggested replacement?

[Adrian Chadd]

On 8 September 2011 01:54, Geoff Roberts <geoff at apro.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Adria,
>
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 08:27:19 am Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Hi, have you had a chance to try your system with < 4G ram?
>
> I found a 2GB memory stick.
>
> Unfortunately it did not make a difference - all of the following CD bootable
> systems froze at the ath initialisation:
>
> a) 8.0 R i386
> b) 8.1 R i386
> c) 8.2 R i386
> d) 9.0 Beta 2 amd64
>
> I also tried with AHCI disable and the same result.

Hm, ok. Let's try this. Put this into /boot/loader.conf:

hw.ath.hal.debug=0xffffffff
dev.ath.0.debug=0xffffffff

Let's see if we can get some idea of where it actually does hang.

Thanks,


Adrian