Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261416AbUCEXB3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:01:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261463AbUCEXB3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:01:29 -0500 Received: from alt.aurema.com ([203.217.18.57]:41128 "EHLO smtp.sw.oz.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261416AbUCEXBY (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:01:24 -0500 Message-ID: <404906A7.6080808@aurema.com> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 10:00:55 +1100 From: Peter Williams Organization: Aurema Pty Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jim999@gmx.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problems with WLAN orinoco_pci References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4217 Lines: 91 Matthias Jim Knopf wrote: > Hi! > > My WLAN net goes down from time to time. I cannot ping the wlan/dsl-router > (T-Sinus 111) and the only thing that helps is re-load the kernel-driver > (ifconfig eth1 down; modprobe -r orinoco_pci; > sleep 8; ifconfig eth1 up; iwconfig ...) > > Changing speed (down to 1 Mb/s) does no better > > Bisides this, I have annother problem: This f***ing router mentioned > above cannot handle at least one connection per second in the long run > (>30 minutes) and crashes in the way, that it still may be pinged, but > I cannot access the router's web-interface, nor can I get to the internet > and have to power-cyle it (official advice from the company selling it!) > I tried hard to see these problems as one, but it seems, they ARE > two (see logs) > > > Here is, what I can offer you as info: > WLAN is a Netgear PCI MA311 (using hermes, orinoco) > > # iwconfig > eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"WLAN" Nickname:"jim" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:30:F1:xx:xx:xx > Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 > Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xx Security mode:open > Power Management:off > Link Quality:20/92 Signal level:-76 dBm Noise level:-136 dBm > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:1 > Tx excessive retries:2 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > > # ping -c 5 router > PING wlan-router (192.168.2.1): 56 data bytes > --- wlan-router ping statistics --- > 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss > > # uname -a > Linux laura 2.4.22 #2 Sun Dec 21 17:14:01 MET 2003 i686 unknown > > # lsmod > Module Size Used by > orinoco_pci 3056 1 (autoclean) > orinoco 31808 0 (autoclean) [orinoco_pci] > hermes 5232 0 (autoclean) [orinoco_pci orinoco] > [...] > > ---{ /var/log/warn }---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mar 5 15:41:43 laura kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP > Mar 5 15:42:15 laura last message repeated 59 times > Mar 5 15:42:22 laura last message repeated 12 times > [...] > Mar 5 15:44:34 laura kernel: eth1: error -110 reading info frame. Frame dropped. > Mar 5 15:44:34 laura kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP > Mar 5 15:44:41 laura last message repeated 14 times > Mar 5 15:45:33 laura kernel: .....<7>orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=e3c82800) > Mar 5 15:45:33 laura kernel: ......<7>orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=e3c82800) > Mar 5 15:45:33 laura last message repeated 4 times > Mar 5 15:45:33 laura kernel: .....<7>orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=e3c82800) > Mar 5 15:45:33 laura kernel: ......<7>orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=e3c82800) > Mar 5 15:45:33 laura last message repeated 4 times > Mar 5 15:45:34 laura kernel: .........; > [...] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Thanks in advance for any help you can give me! I'm having similar problems with a PCMCIA orinoco wlan device. Works perfectly with various 2.4.X kernels but keeps (partially) dropping the connection with 2.6.X kernels. By partially, I mean connections are lost and pings report target hosts as unreachable but netstat -r reports make it look like the connection is still valid. Doing an ifup (without a preceding ifdown) seems to fix the problem. If more information would be helpful or testing is required don't hesitate to ask. Peter -- Dr Peter Williams, Chief Scientist peterw@aurema.com Aurema Pty Limited Tel:+61 2 9698 2322 PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012, Australia Fax:+61 2 9699 9174 79 Myrtle Street, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia http://www.aurema.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/