Alexander, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:45:16AM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote: > On 11/26/12 09:44, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a Soekris net5501 in which I put a PCI Ralink wireless adapter. > > > > For months, I haven't used the wireless adapter -- it was using Ethernet > > -- at all and it worked like a charm (uptime > 100 days). For a few > > days, I have used it as an access point but unfortunately I get very > > frequent hard locks (even the serial console is unresponsive). > > > > I'm looking for a way to debug this. > > > > Here is the relevant device: > > > > 0:14:0: Ralink RT2860 > > 0x0000: Vendor ID: 1814 Product ID: 0601 > > 0x0004: Command: 0117 Status ID: 0410 > > 0x0008: Class: 02 Subclass: 80 Interface: 00 Revision: 00 > > 0x000c: BIST: 00 Header Type: 00 Latency Timer: 40 Cache Line > > Size: 08 > > 0x0010: BAR mem 32bit addr: 0xa0010000/0x00010000 > > 0x0014: BAR empty (00000000) > > 0x0018: BAR empty (00000000) > > 0x001c: BAR empty (00000000) > > 0x0020: BAR empty (00000000) > > 0x0024: BAR empty (00000000) > > 0x0028: Cardbus CIS: 00008001 > > 0x002c: Subsystem Vendor ID: 17f9 Product ID: 0023 > > 0x0030: Expansion ROM Base Address: 00000000 > > 0x0038: 00000000 > > 0x003c: Interrupt Pin: 01 Line: 0a Min Gnt: 02 Max Lat: 04 > > 0x0040: Capability 0x01: Power Management > > > > I'm clueless how to troubleshoot the problem. Do you have any hints > > about what could cause a general dead lock in the system ? Locked in a > > high SPL level? > > First thing I'd look at is if the power supply is big enough. Since you > didn't supply a dmesg, we can only guess what's in there.
Dmesg is unavailable for now (too many ral(4) debugging messages in the ring buffer :)), I think I will have to reboot to get it. If you really need additional information from there, I will reboot it when I will be back at home. Here is the output of the pcidump command: Domain /dev/pci0: 0:1:0: AMD Geode LX 0:1:2: AMD Geode LX Crypto 0:6:0: VIA VT6105M RhineIII 0:7:0: VIA VT6105M RhineIII 0:8:0: VIA VT6105M RhineIII 0:9:0: VIA VT6105M RhineIII 0:14:0: Ralink RT2860 0:17:0: Hifn 7955/7954 0:20:0: AMD CS5536 ISA 0:20:2: AMD CS5536 IDE 0:21:0: AMD CS5536 USB 0:21:1: AMD CS5536 USB There is no hard-drive in the box, only a Compact Flash mounted read/only. -- Jeremie Le Hen Scientists say the world is made up of Protons, Neutrons and Electrons. They forgot to mention Morons.
