Re: Project Evil: The Evil Continues

> Bill Paul wrote (2004/01/27):
> > a) you only gave me one instruction where the crash occured, rather
> > than showing me the entire stack trace and console display so I could
> > see what other messages (if any) appeared on the console when it happened,
> 
> This and other points: Ok, ok ;o) I just waited, how much you are
> interested in which things. As the first show, you can download
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.cz/pub/FreeBSD-local/ndis/gdb.out.bz2 , where is
> output of these gdb commands:
> 
> file kernel.debug
> core-file /var/crash/vmcore.14
> bt
> up 12
> disas
> quit

Unfortunately, this doesn't tell me much. :(

> > b) you
> > didn't tell me what speed/mode you were using at the time,
> 
> Is output of ifconfig sufficient? In other case, I do know how get
> this information.

*sigh* Look, you told me you tried the card with both 11b and 11g
modes. Which one where you using when the system crashed? It's a
simple question. You could also tell me what access point you were
connected to at the time.

> cbg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::207:40ff:fec1:b188%cbg0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>         inet 147.229.12.36 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 147.229.12.255
>         ether 00:07:40:c1:b1:88
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
>         status: associated
>         ssid FITZAM 1:FITZAM
>         channel 1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
>         wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
>         wepkey 1:104-bit

You were not using 11g mode then, correct? (I.e. this was at 11Mbps,
not 54Mbps.)
 
> > and c)
> > you have not provided a more precise means of duplicating the crash
> > (I can't do cvsup from home: I only have a dialup). Cvsup is not
> > a network diagnostic or traffic generation tool: it is not possible
> > to generate consistent, reproducible results with it. Use ttcp or
> > netperf instead, then show me _EXACTLY_ how you ran it to produce
> > the crash so I can do it too.
> 
> Ok, I do it. Now I have to go to lunch ;o) Do you have this or similar
> card too? The driver is bcmwl5.sys and it seems that it is shared
> among several cards.
> 
> > > *) Cisco AIR-CB20A / AIR-CB20A-A-K9 (802.11a)
> > I don't have a card like this. What chipset is it?
> 
> I'm sorry - how do you get information about used chipsets?

For PCI or cardbus, it's really simple: just do pciconf -lv and send
it to me.

> If you want, it would not be problem for me to give you an ssh access
> to my notebook in my working time (about 4 hours before and 4 hours
> after exactly this time).

Unfortunately, I usually need more time than this, and matching
up my free time with your free time is hard.

I just received an SMC card to experiment with, so I'll probably be
busy with that for a while.

-Bill

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