Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-03-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
does downgrading the motherboard/ram fix it? You were already running 64 bit, right? What if you just boot with 2gb of ram? adrian On 30 March 2013 18:04, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: I've been longing to upgrade my motherboard and ram, and with a tax refund it came time. The

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-03-31 Thread Joshua Isom
I spoke too soon, it can still degrade, it's just takes longer to happen. This is with `ping -i .25 192.168.1.1` 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=743 ttl=64 time=1.595 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=765 ttl=64 time=1.696 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=771 ttl=64 time=3.118

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-03-31 Thread Joshua Isom
If I drop down to one 8Gb stick, and I don't have other wifi devices near causing interference, I can get a reliable connection and low loss. If I have 16Gb, I can get about a minute or two of decent ping times before it degrades to multi-second pings of the router. Even at 8Gb, it's not

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-03-31 Thread Joshua Isom
I tried updating today to the new code, it seemed to make it worse and never get decent ping times. With the code from before, it's dependent on boot, either it will work fine on boot or fail. But it has to be related to the handled npkts 0 message. When I'm getting no messages, it's

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-03-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
... that message is because it's scanning. :-) Try booting it with only 2GB of physical RAM. It may be something odd to do with how the DMA code works; the ath NIC is a 32 bit PCI device. I need to make sure it's totally 64 bit clean - not only 64 bit pointer clean, but all the mbufs need to be

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-03-31 Thread Joshua Isom
I switched it to 4Gb shortly after you mentioned 32 bit pci. I've been using amd64 for so long I forgot about 32 bit memory limits. On 3/31/2013 1:38 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 31 March 2013 10:49, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: I seems someone working on the kernel's already figured

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-03-31 Thread Joshua Isom
From if_ath.c:2995: For some situations (eg EDMA TX completion), there isn't a requirement for the ath_buf entries to be allocated. The EDMA code uses malloc, but would contigmalloc work instead? On 3/31/2013 1:38 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 31 March 2013 10:49, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com

Suggested hardware

2013-03-31 Thread sib
Hi. I'm looking to get a netbook or small laptop for FreeBSD. I've only run it on servers and desktops in the past, so I'm unsure about some of the hardware requirements. I'd like to be able to connect to wifi with no auth, wep, wpa and wpa2 and be able to fully utilize the aircrack-ng suite of

Re: [rft] ar9300 HAL updated

2013-03-31 Thread Raphael Kubo da Costa
Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com writes: On 3/31/2013 9:49 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: The first error I got was in ar9300_radio.c:90 -- clang complained `ichan' was not being used. I keep forgetting about this, but if you open the file go to line 89 and change the ifdef to '#if 0' it'll

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-03-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
The problem isn't contigmalloc, it's making sure that it gets bounced via the local 32 bits of address space right. I'll talk with other developers and see what the deal is with 64 bit address space for 32 bit nics. Thanks, Adrian Sent from my Palm Pre on ATamp;T On Mar 31, 2013 3:47 PM,

Re: [rft] ar9300 HAL updated

2013-03-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
Look in ath/makefile .. At the bottom. There's clang warning overrides there. Uncomment them! Adrian Sent from my Palm Pre on ATamp;T On Mar 31, 2013 11:54 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa lt;rak...@freebsd.orggt; wrote: Adrian Chadd lt;adr...@freebsd.orggt; writes: gt; I've just updated the

Re: kern/177465: [iwn] 20%-100% packet loss with iwn driver

2013-03-31 Thread linimon
Old Synopsis: 20%-100% packet loss with iwn driver New Synopsis: [iwn] 20%-100% packet loss with iwn driver Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs-freebsd-wireless Responsible-Changed-By: linimon Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Mar 31 23:03:19 UTC 2013 Responsible-Changed-Why: Over to

Re: Suggested hardware

2013-03-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:55:46 - s...@tormail.org wrote: Hi. I'm looking to get a netbook or small laptop for FreeBSD. I've only run it on servers and desktops in the past, so I'm unsure about some of the hardware requirements. I'd like to be able to connect to wifi with no auth, wep,

Re: Suggested hardware

2013-03-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. anything with an Atheros PCI/PCIe chipset will work. The only chipset I don't have support for atm is: * AR5523, but i doubt you'll ever see this unless you still use cardbus; * QCA9880 and derivates (11ac) - but that won't work at the moment and likely won't do raw injection more for