Re: state of 7.0-RC1 on an IBM t60p

Hi Josh,

Josh Paetzel wrote:
> I recently installed FBSD 7.0-BETA4 on my laptop in an effort to get working 
> intel 3945abg wireless.  I bumped it up to 7.0-RC1 the other day.  I've been 
> in a bit of a state health wise and have gotten to the point where i need to 
> depend on my laptop, so it has to go back to releng_6, but I thought I'd 
> write out the problems I've been having.
>
> 1) wpi is nearly non-functional.  It seems to associate best to WPA2 networks, 
> struggles with WEP and won't associate at all to open networks.  Once it's 
> associated it spams the console with "discarding packet without header" 
> and "wpi_cmd: couldn't set tx power" quite a bit, as well as other random 
> output.  The real problem I've had with it is that it panics under moderate 
> data rates, in the 1000-1500K/sec range.
>   
You can try the latest wpi driver from perforce - 
http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Wpi
Also you can disable debugging.
> 2) pantech px-500 evdo pccard.  This thing uses the ucom/umodem driver and 
> panics after a few seconds of transfer at anything over 30K/sec or so.  It 
> also panics instantly on insertion or removal.  I've been unable to get a 
> crash dump or to the debugger for this, my swap is encrypted and seeming gets 
> cleared before savecore runs, and i've been unable to dump to usb swap 
> devices.  (The card is a pccard that has a usb controller with a usb-> serial 
> adapter on it)
>   
I'm using http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/usb4bsd/index.html, which 
fixed same problems for me (with other hardware).
> 3) sutdown output is garbled.  This doesn't seem to hurt anything,  but at 
> some point in shutdown the console messages start interleaving.
>   
First time I saw this in RC1 - never with 7-CURRENT or -BETAX (I'm 
talking only about shutdown messages, not boot messages)
> 4) acpi suspend and resume doesn't work, but that's not a huge shock.l
>
> 5) ath generates interrupt storms that are throttled.
>   
Sorry, I do not have idea how to fix this.
> console output snippet....
>
> wpi0: link state changed to UP
> wpi0: could not set power mode
> wpi0: wpi_cmd: cmd 119 not sent, busy
> wpi0: could not set power mode
> wpi0: wpi_cmd: cmd 151 not sent, busy
> wpi0: could not adjust Tx power
> wpi0: wpi_cmd: cmd 72 not sent, busy
> wpi0: link state changed to DOWN
> wpi0: wpi_cmd: cmd 119 not sent, busy
> wpi0: could not set power mode
> wpi0: wpi_cmd: cmd 119 not sent, busy
> wpi0: could not set power mode
> wpi0: wpi_cmd: cmd 72 not sent, busy
> wpi0: wpi_cmd: cmd 16 not sent, busy
> wpi0: could not configure
> wpi0: could not send authentication request
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on 
> cardbus0
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:1b:2f:5e:fa:d7
> ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
> interrupt storm detected on "irq16:"; throttling interrupt source
>
> Hopefully soon I'll  be in a better position to help debug and troubleshoot, 
> for now all I can do is enumerate my issues.
>
> dmesg and stuff attached...
>
>   

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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
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