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    Kernel crash on 2.0.3 when assigning interface to WIFI NIC clone

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      sammy2ooo
      last edited by

      Hello everyone

      I am suffering from a kernel crash here. I am running the latest stable release of pfSense on an ALIX board. I was trying to clone my WLAN interface to create a "WLAN DMZ". But when I then create a new interface within the "Interface assignments" tab and assign it to ath0_wlan1 the crash and reboot occurs. I have submitted the crash report via GUI.

      Am I doing anything wrong here?  ??? Any help?

      Wireless clone configuration:

      
      Parent interface: ath0 (00:0b:6b:db:1f:f1)
      Mode: Access Point
      Description: WLAN DMZ
      
      

      [2.0.3-RELEASE][root@fw.mydomain.tld]/(21): dmesg | grep ath

      
      ath0: <atheros 5212="">mem 0xe00c0000-0xe00cffff irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci0
      ath0: [ITHREAD]
      ath0: AR5212 mac 5.9 RF5112 phy 4.3</atheros> 
      

      [2.0.3-RELEASE][root@fw.mydomain.tld]/(15): pciconf -l | grep ath0

      
      ath0@pci0:0:12:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x1012185f chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
      
      

      [2.0.3-RELEASE][root@fw.mydomain.tld]/(18): ifconfig

      
      [...]
      ath0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 2290
              ether 00:0b:6b:db:1f:f1
              media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>status: running
      
      ath0_wlan0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
              ether 00:0b:6b:db:1f:f1
              inet6 fe80::20b:6bff:fedb:1ff1%ath0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9
              inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
              nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>status: running
              ssid mySSID channel 9 (2452 MHz 11g) bssid 00:0b:6b:db:1f:f1
              country US ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey 2
              AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 21.5 scanvalid 60 pureg protmode OFF burst
              dtimperiod 1 -dfs
      
      ath0_wlan1: flags=8802 <broadcast,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
              ether 06:0b:6b:db:1f:f1
              media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <hostap>(autoselect <hostap>)
              status: no carrier
              ssid "" channel 9 (2452 MHz 11g)
              country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 21.5 scanvalid 60
              protmode OFF wme burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs bintval 0
      [...]</hostap></hostap></broadcast,simplex,multicast></hostap></performnud,accept_rtadv></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></hostap></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast> 
      
      
      Crash report begins.  Anonymous machine information:
      
      i386
      8.1-RELEASE-p13
      FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13 #1: Fri Apr 12 10:50:06 EDT 2013     root@snapshots-8_1-i386.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_wrap.8.i386
      
      Crash report details:
      
      Filename: /var/crash/bounds
      1
      
      Filename: /var/crash/info.0
      Dump header from device /dev/ad0s1b
        Architecture: i386
        Architecture Version: 2
        Dump Length: 46297088B (44 MB)
        Blocksize: 512
        Dumptime: Tue Jun 11 12:41:07 2013
        Hostname: fw.mydomain.tld
        Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump
        Version String: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13 #1: Fri Apr 12 10:50:06 EDT 2013
          root@snapshots-8_1-i386.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_wrap.8.i386
        Panic String: page fault
        Dump Parity: 3570754619
        Bounds: 0
        Dump Status: good
      
      
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        sammy2ooo
        last edited by

        Just stumpled over this link from back in 2010:

        http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1048

        Quoting Chris Buechler

        at least one Atheros chipset I have will panic like that with VAP. Driver problem, nothing we can do about it, needs to be replicated on stock FreeBSD and reported upstream.

        So this still seems to be an issue…

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          sammy2ooo
          last edited by

          I would like to create an upstream bug report on freebsd.org. How can I access the coredump generated by pfSense?

          This chip should be reported as instable in regards to VAP on the following list.

          https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AojFUXcbH0ROdHgwYkFHbkRUdV9hVWljVWl5SXkxbFE&hl=en#gid=0

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            cmb
            last edited by

            First, try it on 2.1. That may well work fine on FreeBSD 8.3.

            If not, then before reporting anything upstream that will get any attention, it'll have to be tested on FreeBSD HEAD. A ton of wireless-related fixes are there that can't reasonably be back ported. We'll have 2.2 alpha snapshots out on that within a few weeks if you want to wait until then.

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              sammy2ooo
              last edited by

              Thanks for replying. It's not that import for me, so I guess I am going to wait until 2.2 becomes stable, as I don't want to break my rock solid installation

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