if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Dominic Fandrey
The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems really just are the tip of the iceberg: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=144898 A notebook without wireless is really just a portable workstation. I've seen a lot of commits to other wireless drivers in recent months. So

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
On 01/-10/63 19:59, Dominic Fandrey wrote: The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems I have had trouble with all Intel drivers, ipw, iwi, wpi, and iwn. (As an exception, recently, iwn was very stable on 8-STABLE.) For most notebooks, I bought Atheros based MiniPCI(e)

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de wrote: On 01/-10/63 19:59, Dominic Fandrey wrote: The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems I have had trouble with all Intel drivers, ipw, iwi, wpi, and iwn. (As an exception, recently, iwn was very

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 17/05/2010 15:44, Tom Evans wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de wrote: On 01/-10/63 19:59, Dominic Fandrey wrote: The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems I have had trouble with all Intel drivers, ipw, iwi, wpi, and iwn. (As an

Release Cycle for 8.1-RELEASE...

2010-05-17 Thread Ken Smith
Just FYI, we are about a week away from starting code freeze for the 8.1-RELEASE release cycle. Since sometimes that means stable/8 gets a little less reliable due to higher than normal levels of developer activity I'll adjust the branch to say it is 8.1-PRERELEASE now. The target schedule for

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: On 17/05/2010 15:44, Tom Evans wrote: Note that not all laptops will play nicely with different wifi cards. My old HP laptop would not boot up past the BIOS if you replaced the wifi card with one not in its magic list, which I found out after I had

Problem, install Freebsd 8 in Adaptec 29320A, not recognizes raid

2010-05-17 Thread Jean Pereira
Hi. I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a server that eighth in which I have a adaptec 29320A controller with two 36 GB Seagate drives in raid 0. When I go to install the freebsd it detects only disks and not the raid. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Crash dump problem - sleeping thread owns a non-sleepable lock during crash dump write

2010-05-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 14 May 2010 11:42:44 am Matthew Fleming wrote: As an aside, this is a quad-core in one package CPU (an X3363). On both this box and a similar one with an X5470, console messages continue to print out after the system has been halted - press any key to reboot - in particular,

Re: Crash dump problem - sleeping thread owns a non-sleepable lock during crash dump write

2010-05-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 14 May 2010 7:59:40 am Terry Kennedy wrote: The crash was a page fault while in kernel mode with the current process being the interrupt service routine for the bce0 GigE. Things progressed reasonably until partway through the dump, when the system locked up with a

odd behavior on select() after shutdown()

2010-05-17 Thread Yoshihiko Sarumaru
Hi all, Select(2) has three arguments to get socket status for read, write and except. After upgrading to 8.0-RELEASE, select() after shutdown(SHUT_WR) returns with the status exceptfds is set. It means out-of-bound data can be read from the socket, but recv() with OOB flag returns ECONNRESET,

Re: Problem with ath(4) RELENG_8

2010-05-17 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 17/05/2010 04:14, Guillermo Amaral wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Guillermo Amaral g...@maral.me wrote: I have been using RELENG_8 for a while and some time ago the wireless driver started acting funny, by this I mean that for example in RELENG_8_0 the ath driver radio switch

Re: odd behavior on select() after shutdown()

2010-05-17 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:08:50AM +0900, Yoshihiko Sarumaru wrote: Hi all, Select(2) has three arguments to get socket status for read, write and except. After upgrading to 8.0-RELEASE, select() after shutdown(SHUT_WR) returns with the status exceptfds is set. It means out-of-bound data can

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: [...] The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no e). Yes, and replacing this card is a problem, because the wireless card in many IBM Thinkpad Laptops have a custom firmware, and

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 21:26:42 +0200 From: Christian Walther cptsa...@gmail.com Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org Hi, On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: [...] The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI

Give freeze a chance

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Abthorpe
The next wave of the challenge, fear, there is one more already composed to be released with 8.1! -- Give Freeze a chance with apologies to John Lennon et al Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout portism, srcism, docism, cvsism, svnism, tagism This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism All we are saying is give

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: Hi, On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: [...] The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no e). Yes, and replacing this card is a problem, because the wireless card in

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 17/05/2010 23:29, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: Hi, On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: [...] The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no e). Yes, and replacing this card is

Re: odd behavior on select() after shutdown()

2010-05-17 Thread Yoshihiko Sarumaru
Hi, 2010/5/18 Kostik Belousov kostik...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:08:50AM +0900, Yoshihiko Sarumaru wrote: Hi all, Select(2) has three arguments to get socket status for read, write and except. After upgrading to 8.0-RELEASE, select() after shutdown(SHUT_WR) returns with the

[releng_8 tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2010-05-17 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2010-05-18 04:31:50 - tinderbox 2.6 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2010-05-18 04:31:50 - starting RELENG_8 tinderbox run for amd64/amd64 TB --- 2010-05-18 04:31:50 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2010-05-18 04:32:16 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2010-05-18 04:32:16 -