From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Oct 26 0:24:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E9C37B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 13ohOq-0006X4-00 for mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 03:24:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 03:24:32 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help with WaveLAN! Message-ID: <20001026032431.A24708@pir.net> Mail-Followup-To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001025120958.B648@pir.net> <200010260459.e9Q4xVj20807@curve.dellroad.org> <20001026143652.I91374@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001026143652.I91374@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:36:52PM +0930 X-fish: < Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I read the list, or I wouldn't have responded to someone else. Please don't Cc: me. Greg Lehey probably said: > On Wednesday, 25 October 2000 at 21:59:30 -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > Peter Radcliffe writes: > >>> I have FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE cvsuped 1 week ago. And still can't > >>> successfully attach wi0 to it. Please help me! > >>> > >>> wi0: at port 0x240-0x27f irq 3 slot 0 on pccard0 > >>> wi0: Ethernet address: 00:38:af:c0:00:8e > >>> wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC > >>> wi0: tx buffer allocation failed > >> > >> Classic wrong IRQ problem, has been rehashed a dozen times on this list. > >> > >> Change the IRQ you're handing out in pccard.conf and next time search > >> the list archives first, hmm ? > > > > As a bystander, you got to admit that if the problem is the > > IRQ assignment, then the error message is completely misleading. The error message is correct - the driver is failing to do things to the card. > As a relatively diligent reader of this mailing list, I also can't > recall having seen this go past before. Peter, maybe you can give us > a reference. Search the archives for this list for 'wi0: tx buffer allocation failed' I get a couple of hundred hits, most of them look relevant. Many of them are me telling people to check IRQs. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message