On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Bernhard Schmidt
<bschm...@techwires.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:27:32PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Brandon Gooch
>> <jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanef...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanef...@gmail.com> 
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Brandon Gooch
>> >>> <jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>> 2010/4/23 Garrett Cooper <yanef...@gmail.com>:
>> >>>>> 2010/4/23 Garrett Cooper <yanef...@gmail.com>:
>> >>>>>> 2010/4/18 Olivier Cochard-Labbé <oliv...@cochard.me>:
>> >>>>>>> 2010/4/18 Bernhard Schmidt <bschm...@techwires.net>:
>> >>>>>>>> Are you able to reproduce this on demand? As in type a few commands 
>> >>>>>>>> and
>> >>>>>>>> the firmware error occurs?
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> No, I'm not able to reproduce on demand this problem.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> I'm seeing similar issues on occasion with my Lenovo as well:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: firmware error log:
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: error type      =
>> >>>>>> "NMI_INTERRUPT_WDG" (0x00000004)
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: program counter = 0x0000046C
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: source line     = 0x000000D0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: error data      = 
>> >>>>>> 0x0000000207030000
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: branch link     = 
>> >>>>>> 0x00008370000004C2
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: interrupt link  = 
>> >>>>>> 0x000006DA000018B8
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: time            = 4287402440
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: driver status:
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  0: qid=0  cur=1   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  1: qid=1  cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  2: qid=2  cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  3: qid=3  cur=36  
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  4: qid=4  cur=123 
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  5: qid=5  cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  6: qid=6  cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  7: qid=7  cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  8: qid=8  cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring  9: qid=9  cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring 10: qid=10 cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring 11: qid=11 cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring 12: qid=12 cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring 13: qid=13 cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring 14: qid=14 cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: tx ring 15: qid=15 cur=0   
>> >>>>>> queued=0
>> >>>>>> Apr 23 19:25:24 garrcoop-fbsd kernel: rx ring: cur=8
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> This may be because the system was under load (I was installing a port
>> >>>>>> shortly before the connection dropped). I'll try poking at this
>> >>>>>> further because it's going to be an annoying productivity loss :/.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>    Sorry... should have included more helpful details.
>> >>>>> Thanks,
>> >>>>> -Garrett
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> dmesg:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> iwn0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 4965BGN> mem 0xdf2fe000-0xdf2fffff irq 17
>> >>>>> at device 0.0 on pci3
>> >>>>> iwn0: MIMO 2T3R, MoW1, address 00:1d:e0:7d:9f:c7
>> >>>>> iwn0: [ITHREAD]
>> >>>>> iwn0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
>> >>>>> iwn0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
>> >>>>> iwn0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
>> >>>>> 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> pciconf -lv snippet:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> i...@pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x11108086 chip=0x42308086
>> >>>>> rev=0x61 hdr=0x00
>> >>>>>    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>> >>>>>    device     = 'Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (Intel 4965AGN)'
>> >>>>>    class      = network
>> >>>>> c...@pci0:21:0:0:       class=0x060700 card=0x20c617aa chip=0x04761180
>> >>>>> rev=0xba hdr=0x02
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> uname -a:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> $ uname -a
>> >>>>> FreeBSD garrcoop-fbsd.cisco.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0
>> >>>>> r207006: Wed Apr 21 13:18:44 PDT 2010
>> >>>>> r...@garrcoop-fbsd.cisco.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPPY_X86  i386
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I'm actually looking at this right now. For me, it's actually
>> >>>> happening when my machine stays on overnight (or for long periods of
>> >>>> time, idle).
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Also, it seems to be causing the kernel to panic, although I'm now
>> >>>> wondering if the Machine Check Architecture is somehow catching this
>> >>>> device error and causing an exception (hw.mca.enabled=1)(?) -- not
>> >>>> possible, right ???
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Whatever the case, I can't seem to get the firmware error to occur
>> >>>> with iwn(4) debugging or wlandebug options enabled, so who knows
>> >>>> exactly what leads to this.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I know Bernhard has worked hard on this driver, it's a shame that this
>> >>>> freaky bug has bit us all now, without leaving many clues :(
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I've attached a textdump for posterity if nothing else :)
>> >>>
>> >>>    Connectivity appears to be shoddy in my neck of the woods (kind of
>> >>> ironic... but meh). Just running buildworld, buildkernel, then doing a
>> >>> tcpdump in parallel causes the pseudo device to go up and down a lot.
>> >>> I assume this isn't standard behavior?
>> >>>    Just for reference buildworld was started shortly after 19:39:05,
>> >>> and it finished at 21:29. The interface has also gone up and down once
>> >>> since then while the system's been basically idle.
>> >>
>> >>    Hmmm... I'm seem to be in an excellent position to reproduce this
>> >> issue. I've reproduced it twice by merely bringing the interface up
>> >> and down several times using:
>> >>
>> >> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>> >>
>> >>    instead of my usual:
>> >>
>> >> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA ssid <base-station-id1> DHCP"
>> >>
>> >>    Maybe others who are experiencing the issue should try that? I'll
>> >> do more testing when I get home...
>
> How did you do that? Reloading the module, or with ifconfig?

/etc/rc.d/netif restart , which does the ifconfig operations (no
module change occurred AFAIK, but wlan0 did of course do some
device_printf's when it was associating itself with iwn(4)).

>> >
>> > My rc.conf is:
>> >
>> > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>> >
>> > ...as well, although I haven't tried manually taking the interface
>> > down and bringing it back up.
>>
>> Hmmm... that is interesting. I wish I could do that, but it seems to
>> be alluding my grasp right now. The driver just kind of freaks out
>> with a bunch of SSIDs, one being my target SSID, a bunch of NUL string
>> ones, and then finally it just croaks. I need to figure out whether or
>> not the SSIDs are valid when I boot it up at my desk again.
>>
>> > Are you waiting for the device to associate and begin passing traffic
>> > before you each up/down cycle?
>>
>> I was, but I'm not sure whether or not the Ajax pieces in GMail were.
>> I'll try some more rudimentary tests when I get back to work on Monday
>> in that environment, but I need to try out other things at home as
>> well in the meantime.

Thanks,
-Garrett
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