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See below for reply On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 17:10 -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Bob Gustafson <bobgus at rcn dot com> wrote: > > I am in the configuration stage of a new ALIX board (3C2) with a Compex > > WLM54G 200mW B/G wifi card. > > > > On the serial port, I get a continuing stream of lines: > > interrupt storm detected on "irq9:"; throttling interrupt source > > > > maybe once a second or so. > > > > What do these mean? > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_storm > > In this case, likely either a hardware problem or a driver bug. > > Make sure your ALIX has the latest BIOS on it, as earlier revisions > have had various bugs. Also make sure you're on the latest 1.3b > release, as it's based on FreeBSD 6.3 which has a newer ath HAL that > has been reported to work better than the 6.2 one. > > -Chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- I just now downloaded the latest BIOS from pcengines and looked at the latest directory and did: [user1@hoho2 ALI6117]$ strings BIOS.BIN ALI M6117C tinyBIOS V1.3a (C)1997-2001 PC Engines --- this gives me the latest version number of the bios --- --- Then: >From the serial line 'console' coming from the board, when I reboot, I see: (note that the serial line output gets a bit scrambled during reboot. I don't know whether it is changing line speeds in the middle or not. Is this normal?) (Also, I don't see anything that might be the BIOS version in the output) (Maybe you can interpret it better) Rebooting... PC Engines ALIX.3 v0.98 640 KB Base Memory 261120 KB Extended Memory 01F0 Master 044A CF 1GB Phys C/H/S 1966/16/63 Log C/H/S 983/32/63 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS 640kB/261120kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root at mb63 dot neon1 dot net, Sat Mar 1 18:38:30 CET 2008) /kernel text=0x2eb62c data=0x38e74+0x1fa34 syms=[0x4+0x40660+0x4 +0x51ae9] )9? root@m?gn?9?v;??.n?G???w?5'7?n?7?.????????;?ile??:?N0WALL_WRAPAL% ?]8?Tim i )'N9?PCI-ISA?%;??dge> port 0x6000-0x6007,0x6100-0x61ff,0x620??9?x623???06 f0 )?usb1: <AMD CS5536 USB 2.0 controller> on ehci09?0/1.00, add?.?8auhub0: 4 ?CI ] usb1: USB revision 2.0 uhub1: AMD EHCI root ?W'??77.?9?, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered pmtimer0 ??.???0 orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xe0000-0xeafff on isa0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 )?sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled Timecounter "TSC" frequency 498052330 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec Fast IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing. IP Filter: v4.1.28 initialized. Default = block all, Logging = enabled md0: Preloaded image </mfsroot> 15728640 bytes at 0xc07d703c ad0: 967MB <CF 1GB 20070709> at ata0-master PIO4 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 kern.coredump: 1 -> 0 Found configuration on ad0. Initializing timezone... done Configuring firewall... done Configuring LAN interface... done Configuring WAN interface... vr0: link state changed to UP done Starting syslog service... done Starting webGUI... done Starting DNS forwarder... done Starting DHCP service... done Starting NTP client... done *** This is m0n0wall, version 1.3b10 built on Sat Mar 1 18:40:58 CET 2008 for wrap Copyright (C) 2002-2008 by Manuel Kasper. All rights reserved. Visit http://m0n0.ch/wall for updates. LAN IP address: 192.168.1.1 Port configuration: LAN -> ath0 WAN -> vr0 |