On Tuesday 13 January 2009 17:45:08 Artur Skawina wrote: > Christian Lamparter wrote: > > On Monday 12 January 2009 18:09:47 Artur Skawina wrote: > >> kernel: phy0: p54 detected a LM86 firmware > >> kernel: p54: rx_mtu reduced from 3240 to 2392 > >> kernel: phy0: FW rev 2.13.1.0 - Softmac protocol 5.5 > > Well, I guess you got the latest wireless-testing tree, right? [...] > will do, after upgrading the kernel (could take a few days). hmm... OT: who old is your hostapd version? As far as I can tell AP-mode is still WIP. Maybe you can save you alot trouble if your mobile can connect to ad-hoc wifis. > >> so to test the device further i set up hostapd, which mostly worked; after > >> a few tweaks (eg patching out country code setting in hostapd) > > patching out country code?! why that? > > currently, hostapd is the only thing that works out-of-the-box :-D > > hostapd was aborting no matter what country code i configured, so i > disabled that, leaving figuring this out for later. have you installed crda and udev on your box? ( http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA ) > [also hostapd is reporting some TX failures, didn't investigate yet] TX failures? do you have hostapd's log of it? > it certainly looks like a leak, at first i suspected memory fragmentation, but > Larrys patch didn't help; later the order-0 alloc failures appeared. well, you have a 32-bit architecture, unlike me or larry. So, with a bit of luck the skbs always fitted into a single page and you never had problems with memory fragmentation. > The machine has 512M, ~100M should be (usually is) free, is under constant light > load (typically <2k ints/s, 60% idle) and is running fine for weeks/months between > reboots, but locks up after only a few packets go over the hostap driven > p54usb device. I need the box to be up, that limits the number of tests i can > run, at least as long as the lockups w/o any diagnostics happen... Do keyboard-leds "flash" when it locks up, or does console respond if you press alt-sysrq-m / alt-sysrq-w on the connected keyboard? ( If your box has a serial port, you can try to get the logs from there... ) 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
