On Sunday 26 December 2010 22:39:58 Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 04:43:48PM -0500, Etienne Robillard wrote: > > On 26/12/10 02:55 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > First reported here, > > > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-December/021664 > > > .html > > > > > > I now see a never ending spew in /var/log/messages of > > > > > > laptop:kargl[232] tail /var/log/messages > > > Dec 26 07:58:27 laptop kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN > > > Dec 26 07:58:27 laptop kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP > > > > > > So, the good news appears to be that 3 weeks ago wlan/wpi could > > > stay up for 7 to 9 minutes before cycling DOWN/UP. While the > > > bad news is that today, the DOWN/UP cycle last for 4 to 5 minutes. > > > > have you compiled with IEEE_DEBUG ? > > Yes. How about providing the info I asked for last time? Now that you have build the necessary options into the kernel you should be able to run with wlandebug 0xffffffff enabled. > > I would also like knowing which wireless NIC you're using. Is this bug > > related to > > a USB wireless card ? I have similar issues (recurring) on Freebsd 8.1. > > my current understanding > > is that USB wireless on FreeSD is somewhat a itchy business.. > > It's a nic builtin into a Dell D530 laptop. > > laptop:kargl[202] dmesg | grep wpi > wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> mem 0xfe8ff000-0xfe8fffff irqi > 17 at device 0.0 on pci12 > > I just backed out revision 214894 to test whether this is the > problematic commit. > > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/dev/wpi/if_wpi.c?view=log -- BernhardReceived on Sun Dec 26 2010 - 21:26:49 UTC
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