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Date:      Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:09:21 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Eric Liedtke <eliedtke@apogeetelecom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Another Linksys WDT11 problem
Message-ID:  <20020129150921.A7477@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020129025206.GC31653@apogeetelecom.com>; from eliedtke@apogeetelecom.com on Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 08:52:06PM -0600
References:  <20020129025206.GC31653@apogeetelecom.com>

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 08:52:06PM -0600, Eric Liedtke wrote:
> Ok, from my last mail I got the card working fine. So it was time to
> tranfer it to a 3rd machine, my home router, as it's final resting place
> and I have run into a new problem....I am getting a error message of
>=20
> wi0: mac read failed 5
>=20
> I poked around in the code a little bit, but couldn't come up with
> anything of use. I am not sure how to go about troubleshooting this from
> here, so any advice would be great. Thanks

Ok, this is a bit of a shot in the dark, but what the heck.  If you look
for that error message in the driver, you'll find this comment:

        /*
         * Read the station address.
         * And do it twice. I've seen PRISM-based cards that return=20
         * an error when trying to read it the first time, which causes
         * the probe to fail.
         */

My guess is that in some circumstances this hack isn't enough.  The
first thing to try would be stuffing a delay in between the two reads
like so:

        wi_read_record(sc, (struct wi_ltv_gen *)&mac);
--->    DELAY(50);
	if ((error =3D wi_read_record(sc, (struct wi_ltv_gen *)&mac)) !=3D 0) {
                device_printf(dev, "mac read failed %d\n", error);
                wi_free(dev);
                return (error);
        }

Try playing with the delay value a bit if that doesn't work.

-- Brooks

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