From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Williams Subject: Re: [airo.c bug] Couldn't allocate RX FID / Max tries exceeded when issueing command Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:12:51 -0500 Message-ID: <1162483971.2646.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, breed@users.sourceforge.net, achirica@users.sourceforge.net, jt@hpl.hp.com, fabrice@bellet.info Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36276 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751859AbWKBQN7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:13:59 -0500 To: Ivan Matveich In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 22:14 -0500, Ivan Matveich wrote: > hardware: ibm thinkpad t30 > kernel: 2.6.18 > problem: > > airo(): Probing for PCI adapters > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, > low) -> IRQ 11 > airo(eth1): Found an MPI350 card > airo(eth1): Max tries exceeded when issueing command > airo(eth1): Couldn't allocate RX FID > airo(eth1): Could not map memory > airo(): Finished probing for PCI adapters It appears that the driver cannot talk to your card; see the "max tries exceeded when issueing command". Did this card work previously with a kernel? Can narrow down which kernels have problems and which don't? > Any ideas? > > 1) Firmware upgrade/downgrade? (How?) It's a bit hard to figure out what firmware you have because the driver can't talk to the card; can you boot under Windows and determine that using the Cisco wireless utility? You also need to flash the card under Windows, not Linux, ideally to a version of firmware greater than 5.60.08. > 2) Command sequence to better reset the card? Documentation? reloading the driver (rmmod airo; modprobe airo) should reset the card. Dan