Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-04-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
Right; when you've booted with 4 GB there's no need to create a separate zone for 32 bit only memory, so it doesn't bother. thanks, adrian On 2 April 2013 14:31, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: sysctl.1.txt is right after boot, sysctl.2.txt is while failing. One thing different when

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-04-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
Ok, can you: * bring the interface down cleanly (ifconfig wlan0 down); * unload the ath driver (kldunload if_ath and kldunload if_ath_pci) * sysctl hw.busdma, and just add it to the list here? I'd like to make sure that it's freeing all the bounce buffer pages. Thanks, adrian

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-04-02 Thread Joshua Isom
hw.busdma.total_bpages: 8250 hw.busdma.zone0.total_bpages: 8250 hw.busdma.zone0.free_bpages: 8250 hw.busdma.zone0.reserved_bpages: 0 hw.busdma.zone0.active_bpages: 0 hw.busdma.zone0.total_bounced: 3836 hw.busdma.zone0.total_deferred: 0 hw.busdma.zone0.lowaddr: 0x

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-04-02 Thread Joshua Isom
And it did cause problems with 8GB before IIRC. On 4/2/2013 7:28 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: Nono, they're free. There's no active pages after an unload. Thus, they're fine. Ok, so now I need to go and audit things in more depth. Thanks! Adrian On 2 April 2013 17:24, Joshua Isom

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-04-02 Thread Joshua Isom
I did get a couple bounced after pinging for a while via ssh, but only one ping packet dropped, so it should be good for anything tcp. For my system, network is more important than ram quantity, but it was nice doing a buildworld onto a ram backed file system. I just need to work out a

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-04-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 2 April 2013 17:44, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: I did get a couple bounced after pinging for a while via ssh, but only one ping packet dropped, so it should be good for anything tcp. So what, 8GB almost-but-not-quite worked? How much RAM do I need to ensure that things will break

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-04-02 Thread Joshua Isom
Right now I'm at 62 bpages bounced, with it running in a loop every second listing hw.busdma. Right now it's half an hour of uptime, and when I did 4500 pings, I lost one packet. Quickly's relative. I mainly use ssh to access my FreeBSD machine, I don't recall the last time I ran X, which

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-04-02 Thread Joshua Isom
But this really will be interesting. It seems to be fine at 8GB of ram, not just at 4GB. I'm not getting any dma issues or dropped packets so far. But booting with 12GB will cause problems. On 4/2/2013 7:28 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: Nono, they're free. There's no active pages after an

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-04-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 2 April 2013 17:33, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: But this really will be interesting. It seems to be fine at 8GB of ram, not just at 4GB. I'm not getting any dma issues or dropped packets so far. But booting with 12GB will cause problems. Chances are at 8GB of RAM it's just not

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-04-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 2 April 2013 18:13, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: I went half an hour being ok, and 12GB was dropping TCP connections in five minutes. I'm estimating a little, but it was unusable in just a little time. Using 10GB seems fine, but get's a lot bounced. The connections stable and

Re: ath not working after a motherboard and ram upgrade

2013-04-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
So, can you test end-to-end pings? With full memory booted up? What I'd like to try and do is narrow down whether it's a TX or RX (or both.) Do you have control over something on the other end? Can you tcpdump the wifi interface and see if it's pings, pongs, or both being disabled? Also, can

Re: [rft] ar9300 HAL updated

2013-04-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 1 April 2013 08:44, Raphael Kubo da Costa rak...@freebsd.org wrote: On a side note: this card is also supposed to provide Bluetooth support, right? Is any of your work going to help with that as well? I forget what the deal is there. I think it'll work out of the box on AR9485, but the