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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 10:20:17 -0400
From:      Jim Mock <jim@compete.com>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wi0: wi_cmd: device timeout (cmd=11, val=f100)
Message-ID:  <20010524102017.C1134@cartman.bos.geekhouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <200105241415.f4OEF4r13655@lists.unixathome.org>

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On Thu, 24 May 2001 at 10:15:01 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 24 May 2001, at 9:56, Jim Mock wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2001 at 09:20:52 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > > Yes, I've been able to get to get my two wireless NICs talking to
> > > each other.  Of more importance I think is that I've been able to
> > > do an install via wireless. David Yeske is working on getting
> > > support for wi0 into the install disks.  He's been giving me the
> > > boot floppy images and I've been able to use them to install onto
> > > a laptop via wi0.  Thanks David.
> > > 
> > > The other wireless NIC is in a desktop box.  But I see these
> > > messages quite often (about 130 per day):
> > > 
> > >      xeon /kernel: wi0: wi_cmd: device timeout (cmd=11, val=f100)
> > > 
> > > $ ifconfig wi0 wi0:
> > > flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet
> > > 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 inet6
> > > fe80::202:2dff:fe0e:5204%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb ether
> > > 00:02:2d:0e:52:04 
> > > 
> > > $ uname -a FreeBSD xeon.unixathome.org 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD
> > > 4.3-STABLE #0: Sun May 20 00:39:31 EDT 2001
> > > dan@xeon.int.nz.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/XEON  i386
> > > 
> > > clues please?
> > 
> > Hmm.  Alfred introduced this back in April when he added the PrismII
> > support to wi, however, it should have been fixed:
> > 
> > http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1242329+0+archive/2001/cvs-all
> > /20010429.cvs-all
> > 
> > It worked without spamming my console after he committed it.  I
> > don't know if it's back though since I don't currently have any way
> > of using a wireless card.
> 
> ahhh, sorry.  When I say I see these messages, I see them in
> /var/log/messages, not on the console.  Are these device timeouts
> normal and expected?

Are you redirecting stuff from the console to /var/log/messages? :-)

I didn't notice any problems when I was getting spammed with the
messages -- they were just annoying, especially since they didn't affect
the performance or anything.

- jim

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