Re: Orinoco Wireless driver bugs in 2.5.17

[David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:06:36AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 	I see two undesireable behaviours with the Orinoco drivers in
> 2.5.17.
> 
> 1.  With a compaq WL110 in a WL210 PCI<->PCMCIA bridge, I see many 
> 
>     NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
>     Tx timeout! Resetting card. ALLOCFID=00c0, TXCOMPLFID=00bf, EVSTAT=808a
> 
> messages, and see no activity on any other stations.

I've had one similar report, on a vaguely similar PCI<->PCMCIA
bridge.  It looks very much as if we're not receiving any interrupts.
That would appear to be a low-level problem with routing of interrupts
through the bridge.  It may well be a PCMCIA subsystem problem rather
than a driver problem.

> 2.  With a Netgear MA401, every now and then the card goes into bozo
> mode, when iwconfig reports:
> 
> eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  Nickname:"piggle"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:42.9497GHz  Tx-Power=15 dBm   
>           RTS thr:off   
>           Link Quality:241  Signal level:136  Noise level:107
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> 
> Note the Frequency there.  A `cardctl reset' fixes the problem.

Other than the bogus frequecy reported, does the card still work?

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