On Saturday 16 August 2008 16:00:27 Larry Finger wrote: > Chr wrote: > > On Saturday 16 August 2008 02:34:38 Larry Finger wrote: > >> This one lasted for 4 hours. What was worse is that it crashed my > >> computer with a 1 Hz blink of the Caps Lock light when it failed. I > >> hadn't seen that before. > > > > hmm,.... sounds like a bit of a old problem with the minipci card... > > p54_rx_frame_sent walks in the tx_queue without holding the > > tx_queue.lock. > > > > However, this problem is next to impossible to trigger in the current > > code. So, a crash log from a serial console would be great? > > This one locked up the machine. I don't know how long it lasted as it > was overnight. This time, the caps lock was not blinking, but the only > recovery was to power it off. hmm, so the system doesn't respond to sysrq-p.. bad? one last thing, replace - return NETDEV_TX_BUSY; with + return 0; in p54_tx right at the top... it seems that ieee80211_stop_queue doesn't work properly. On the other hand. we might get a new driver, or atleast some some help with the softmac part from a "company that sells this devices" in the foreseeable future. Regards, Chr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
