Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:53461 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758529Ab0AOWvB (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:51:01 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: Ath5k on 2.6.32 suddenly fails Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:50:06 +0100 Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Bob Copeland , Jiri Slaby , Nick Kossifidis , linux-wireless References: <201001101152.34316.mb@bu3sch.de> <201001152340.40127.mb@bu3sch.de> <43e72e891001151447u39ad494ah6861926db0c50907@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43e72e891001151447u39ad494ah6861926db0c50907@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <201001152350.06930.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 15 January 2010 23:47:00 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > I wonder if a possible failure here might be that the box gets under > load and some DMA allocation actually gives back less memory than what > was requested., hrm, but even then we'd still tell hardware it has the > whole desired length we intended... > > Not sure... I haven't reviewed this code in ages. > > > However, it had different failure symptoms this time. > > Last time it failed, the AP was completely dead. No beacons, etc.. > > This time it was still beaconing, but auth failed: > > Can you reproduce? Do you know if anything particular happened at this time? No, there was nothing special happening. I was just sending the previous mail and a few seconds later I noticed that wpa_supplicant lost connection and failed to gain a new authentication. > > Trying to associate with 00:1d:0f:b9:df:2d (SSID='quimby-net' freq=2472 MHz) > > Authentication with 00:1d:0f:b9:df:2d timed out. > > > > A machine reboot was _not_ needed this time to revive the card. > > Module unload cycle was enough to bring it back to life. > > > > I'm really unsure what's going on and if these two failures are related > > to each other. Probably not... > > Anyway you can burp your box sooner (replace the PCI connector) to > rule that out? Yes, I'm going to replace the extender over the weekend. -- Greetings, Michael.