Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:19:03 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I think I wounded by Prism card Message-ID: <20031211221903.EEE885D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> <20031211.132647.55844740.imp@bsdimp.com>
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> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:26:47 -0700 (MST) > From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> > > In message: <20031211182330.0D26C5D04@ptavv.es.net> > "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes: > : > : I have an IBM ThinkPad T30 running CURRENT as of 12/9/03. On that day I > : also updated the firmware on my WiFi card from 1.3.6 to 1.4.9 and my > : troubles began. My wireless card starts and associated normally and runs > : fine until I start a large transfer (such as an scp of a file of a MB or > : so). Then I get the dreaded: > : wi0: timeout in wi_cmd -x010b; event status 0x8000 > > That sucks. I assume no other wi messages before that? And that the > - is really a 0 and you typed it in by hand. Was this under heavy > load? Yes. I hand transcribed and clearly had my finger off by one. > > : At this point the card is dead and I have only been able to recover by > : rebooting the system. > > damn. > > : I will try backing out the recent changes to if_wi > : and rebuild the module ASAP, but I only have wireless available at home, > : so that won't be until tonight. > > I wish I'd seen this earlier, I just committed something to > releng_5_2. You might try hard wiring it or something similar. Unfortunately, I only saw it last night. I've been working late and had not booted my laptop on the wireless for several days. > > : First, any idea as to whether the recent fixes to wi to correct timeouts > : in old firmware versions might have caused this? Or is it a problem with > : 1.4 firmware? If it is the firmware, is there any place to find the old > : firmware to back it off? > > http://www.netgate.com/ has old images. Cool! Just what I was looking for. (Not that I've found them at the site, yet, but I have just started looking around the site. (Just found them!) > : wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xf8000000-0xf8000fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 > : wi0: 802.11 address 00:05:3c:02:43:2d > : wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) > : wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.9) > : wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps > > This should be a fairly good card to have. It's always worked pretty well until last night. :-( My only prior issue was locking up when I had the card active but no signal. That made it lock up fairly often, so I now just load the driver when I need it. I'll know more tomorrow when I have backed out the timeout adjustments (which don't look likely to be the cause of the problem). Thanks, -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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