[laptop-discuss] ral wireless driver install causes dump/reboot

[Quaker Fang]

Hi Alexander,

I need more detail information of your core dump, please:

# cd /var/crash/<hostname>/
# mdb 2 <<EOF     (NOT #mdb vmcore.2)
::status
$<msgbuf
$C
$q
EOF

and paste the output here, then I can help.

--
Quaker

Alexander Wallace 已写入:

> Thank you very much. Let me know if there is anything I can do to 
> change that...
>
> I currently use an external Atheros card that i bought because i could 
> not use the Ralink, but i rather use the internal one (the mini-pci 
> ral)..
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Quaker Fang wrote:
>
>> Hi Alexander,
>>
>> See the result of "scanpci -v" you sent, we can find,
>>
>> ...
>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x05 function 0x00: vendor 0x1814 device 0x0201
>> RaLink RT2500 802.11G Cardbus/mini-PCI
>> CardVendor 0x1462 card 0x6833 (Micro-Star International Co., Ltd., 
>> Card unknown)
>>  STATUS    0x0410  COMMAND 0x0000
>>                            ^^^^ the command register should NOT be 0, 
>>                                 at least the second bit (MEM_EN) 
>> should be 1.
>>                                 this is the BIOS configuration 
>> problem of you laptop.
>>                                 I will try to find a way to fix this.
>>
>>  CLASS     0x02 0x80 0x00  REVISION 0x01
>>  BIST      0x00  HEADER 0x00  LATENCY 0x00  CACHE 0x00
>>  BASE0     0xffffe000  addr 0xffffe000  MEM
>>  MAX_LAT   0x00  MIN_GNT 0x00  INT_PIN 0x01  INT_LINE 0x00
>>  BYTE_0    0x01  BYTE_1  0x00  BYTE_2  0x02  BYTE_3  0x00
>>
>> ....
>>
>> -- 
>> Quaker
>>
>> Alexander Wallace 已写入:
>>
>>> Thank you very much for the response.
>>>
>>> Since i don't know much of what you are doing with the mdb, i could 
>>> not correct the command if it needed correction, so the output is as 
>>> follows:
>>>
>>> debugging file 'vmcore.2' (object file)
>>> mdb: invalid command '::msgbuf': unknown dcmd name
>>>
>>> I'm attaching the output of the other two commands...
>>>
>>> Again, thank you very much for your help.
>>>
>>> Quaker Fang wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Alexander,
>>>>
>>>> What's the output of the following commands running under directory
>>>> /var/crash/<hostname>/
>>>>
>>>> mdb <number> <<EOF
>>>> ::status
>>>> $<msgbuf
>>>> $C
>>>> $q
>>>> EOF
>>>>
>>>> where <number> is the one of those suffix numbers of vmcore.* (your 
>>>> latest core dump).
>>>> Please post the output here.
>>>>
>>>> Then, what's the output of "#/usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v" and "#prtconf 
>>>> -v" ?
>>>> Please post these here, then I can help to figure out.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Quaker
>>>>
>>>> Alexander Wallace:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all!
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a laptop with an RT2500 card and was very excited to see a 
>>>>> driver for it in open solaris... I'm running svn 38, and 43... I 
>>>>> tried installing it on both and in both cases, the computer (amd 
>>>>> 64 / 2 gig laptop) does a memory (or so it seems) dump and gets 
>>>>> rebooted when running the post install scripts....
>>>>>
>>>>> Any clues?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
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