airport reset on iBook2

airport reset on iBook2

[Ethan Blanton]

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Hey,
I don't know if this is a known problem (I haven't seen it mentioned)
or not, but I'm getting the following error from my Airport card
reasonably often:

Jul 25 09:27:50 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Jul 25 09:27:50 localhost kernel: eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card.

It carries with it the undesirable consequence that sometimes all
network traffic stalls for anywhere from 1-10 (subjectively) seconds.
This is probably happening on the order of every 3-5 hours, but when
it happens it often happens several times in the span of a few minutes.

I am sending this to linuxppc-dev and netdev, as I don't know whether
this is airport-specific, or orinoco/hermes related.
Ethan

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Re: airport reset on iBook2

[Harald Welte]

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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:39:02AM -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote:

> I don't know if this is a known problem (I haven't seen it mentioned)
> or not, but I'm getting the following error from my Airport card
> reasonably often:
> 
> Jul 25 09:27:50 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> Jul 25 09:27:50 localhost kernel: eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card.

I can confirm that happen from time to time with my Sony VAIO picturebook
C1XD and a Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE board.

unloading the whole pcmcia subsystem (incl. yenta_socket) and re-loading
everything helps.

(kernel 2.4.7)

> I am sending this to linuxppc-dev and netdev, as I don't know whether
> this is airport-specific, or orinoco/hermes related.

well, my platform is non-ppc, and non-airport, so this seems to be a hint
of it being a generic problem.

> Ethan

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Re: airport reset on iBook2

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>I can confirm that happen from time to time with my Sony VAIO picturebook
>C1XD and a Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE board.
>
>unloading the whole pcmcia subsystem (incl. yenta_socket) and re-loading
>everything helps.

What is your card's firmware version ? (displayed by the driver during
boot). You may want to go to MacOS, upgrade to Apple's latest airport
software, and back to linux. This will upgrade your card's firmware to
the latest version provided by Apple, which might help.

Ben.


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Re: airport reset on iBook2

[Harald Welte]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 04:32:36PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >I can confirm that happen from time to time with my Sony VAIO picturebook
> >C1XD and a Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE board.
> >
> >unloading the whole pcmcia subsystem (incl. yenta_socket) and re-loading
> >everything helps.
>
> What is your card's firmware version ? (displayed by the driver during
> boot). You may want to go to MacOS, upgrade to Apple's latest airport
> software, and back to linux. This will upgrade your card's firmware to
> the latest version provided by Apple, which might help.

erm, as I said, I have a Lucent card and a x86 box.  There is no MacOS
and I don't want to write an AirPort firmware to the Lucent card.

> Ben.

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Re: airport reset on iBook2

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>> What is your card's firmware version ? (displayed by the driver during
>> boot). You may want to go to MacOS, upgrade to Apple's latest airport
>> software, and back to linux. This will upgrade your card's firmware to
>> the latest version provided by Apple, which might help.
>
>erm, as I said, I have a Lucent card and a x86 box.  There is no MacOS
>and I don't want to write an AirPort firmware to the Lucent card.

Oops, sorry about that. Well, what is your firmware version anyway ?

I know some have problems, and it may be wise to update using
Lucent x86 based updaters. (Or maybe it's a too-new firmware you
are running). You should really ask Jean Tourrihles or Daniel
Gibson as they know much more about these issues.

Ben.


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