[Madwifi-devel] random crashes using recent (as of friday 15th) CVS BSD

[kelsey h. <kh...@ts...>]

I've been experiencing some random lockups using the recent cvs code, 
dated 15 July 2005 as of about 16:00 PST. The lockups will come almost 
without warning: all of a sudden all network traffic grinds to a 
standstill, and seconds later the machine is hopelessly deadlocked. 
There is nothing in the system logs to give any indication of what may 
be causing it, so hence I cannot provide an oops or a backtrace or anything.

i know, it's a "my car makes this funny noise" bug report, but believe 
me, if i had more information i'd relay it :(

I suppose I could hook up an old wyse or something to the serial port 
and connect the console that way... maybe if it locks again I'll do that.

anyhow, my system config is as follows:

nemesis# uname -a
Linux nemesis.damnit.us 2.6.12.2-HOS #4 SMP Sat Jul 16 12:53:13 PDT 2005 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
nemesis# iwconfig --version
iwconfig  Wireless-Tools version 27
nemesis# dmesg | grep wlan 

wlan: 0.8.5.0-BSD (EXPERIMENTAL)
nemesis# dmesg | grep ath
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
ath_rate_onoe: 1.0
ath_pci: 0.9.5.0-BSD (EXPERIMENTAL)
nemesis# lspci | grep -i atheros
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

if anyone has any ideas, feel free to let me know.

thanks.
-kelsey