Re: ifconfig_ed0="DHCP" does not work on 8.0-BETA3

[Thierry Thomas]

Le Ven  4 sep 09 à 23:57:47 +0200, Brooks Davis 
 écrivait :
 
> This is a know issue with some devices supported by ed(4).  You can work
> around it by changing DHCP to SYNCDHCP which will cause dhclient to
> alwasy start immediatly on that interface instead of waiting for a link
> state change that never happens.

Thanks for the hint!

What about the following patch?

--- man4_ed.4.diff begins here ---
--- src/share/man/man4/ed.4.orig2009-08-03 10:13:06.0 +0200
+++ src/share/man/man4/ed.4 2009-09-05 12:51:51.0 +0200
@@ -425,3 +425,11 @@
 .Pp
 PC Card attachment supports the D-Link DMF650TX LAN/Modem card's Ethernet
 port only at this time.
+.Pp
+If the line "ed0: link state changed to UP" does not show up in dmesg, the line
+.Pp
+ifconfig_ed0="DHCP"
+.Pp
+in
+.Xr rc.conf 5
+will be ineffective. In this case, replace "DHCP" by "SYNCDHCP".
--- man4_ed.4.diff ends here ---

Don't hesitate to reword it - my englsh can be terrible!

Donation: if someone wants this card for investigations, I can bring it
at EuroBSDCon. It has 2 outputs: 1 RJ45 and 1 coaxial.

Regards,
-- 
Th. Thomas.


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Re: FreeBSD 7-STABLE - ath, Atheros 5212 - crash on network activity

[parv]

in message <20090807155141.ga1...@holstein.holy.cow>,
wrote p...@pair.com thusly...
>
> I am in the process of upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-STABLE, but
> have been stymied due to FreeBSD/i386 7 crashing on network
> activity.  Machine is Thinkpad T61 with Atheros 5212 (IBM 802.11
> [abg]) card.
...
> GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
...
> This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...
...
> Unread portion of the kernel message buffer:
> panic: operating mode 1
> cpuid = 1
> KDB: stack backtrace:
> db_trace_self_wrapper(c0c260f0,e8fbc8fc,c0852763,c0c5338d,1,...) at 
> db_trace_self_wrapper+0x26
> kdb_backtrace(c0c5338d,1,c0c3326f,e8fbc908,1,...) at kdb_backtrace+0x29
> panic(c0c3326f,1,4,c0c21ab3,ce,...) at panic+0x114
> ieee80211_set_tim(c7aac000,1,c0c345ca,c7,0,c7aad510,c670d22c) at 
> ieee80211_set_tim+0x2d
> ieee80211_pwrsave(c7aac000,c7b1ab00,c0be15cd,62c,c0c30884,...) at 
> ieee80211_pwrsave+0x1f3
> ath_start(c6709000,c6709108,e8fbca08,c08ed81f,c6709000,...) at ath_start+0x4e3
> if_start(c6709000,0,c0c30884,195,2,...) at if_start+0x4f
> ether_output_frame(c6709000,c7b1ab00,6,0,e8fbca2a,...) at 
> ether_output_frame+0x1ce
> ether_output(c6709000,c7b1ab00,e8fbcac0,c6b45e0c,0,...) at ether_output+0x48d
> ieee80211_output(c6709000,c7b1ab00,e8fbcac0,c6b45e0c,c6b402d0,...) at 
> ieee80211_output+0x38
> ip_output(c7b1ab00,0,e8fbcabc,0,0,...) at ip_output+0xa10
> udp_send(c6b051a0,0,c7b1ab00,0,0,...) at udp_send+0x89b
> sosend_dgram(c6b051a0,0,e8fbcbe0,c7b1ab00,0,...) at sosend_dgram+0x359
> sosend(c6b051a0,0,e8fbcbe0,0,0,...) at sosend+0x3f
> kern_sendit(c6b49b40,4,e8fbcc5c,0,0,...) at kern_sendit+0x107
> sendit(0,7844401d,0,0,0,...) at sendit+0xad
> sendto(c6b49b40,e8fbccfc,18,c0c3ea41,c,...) at sendto+0x48
> syscall(e8fbcd38) at syscall+0x2a1
> Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x20
>  ...

Could anybody please clue me in about what I can do to solve the
problem of ath (Atheros 5212) crashing?  I had also filed the bug,
not much activity on it yet ...

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=137592


  - parv

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