[Soekris] OpenBSD: ral wireless driver, interrupts, and 4501 crashes

[Jeff Quast]

On 7/9/06, lists at ultraslack.com <lists at ultraslack.com> wrote:
> I used to use an old PC with a ral2500 based wireless card as an access point. It worked fine, and once I got it up and
> running well decided to jump into some nice Soekris hardware.
>
> The problem I'm having is that when I transfer any data over the wireless connection, the interrupt load (as seen by the
> 'top' command) goes way way up... basically 100%. This seems to trigger the watchdog timer and the machine reboots.
>
> I've noticed that my old machine had a spike in the interrupts during wireless transfers (up to about 40%)... though I'm
> not sure if this is a normal thing for devices using the ral driver.
>
> Any ideas? My wife is about to throw the soekris in the trash because all the rebooting is messing up our Vonage service.

http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-wrapper?full=yes&numbers=5155
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2006-06/1465.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2006-06/1488.html