From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 24 7:20:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from simpurio.idealab.com (mx2.idealab.com [64.208.8.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FD4D37B422 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 07:20:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@compete.com) Received: (qmail 26870 invoked by alias); 24 May 2001 14:20:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 26833 invoked from network); 24 May 2001 14:20:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cartman.boston.geekhouse.net) (10.5.1.189) by simpurio.idealab.com with SMTP; 24 May 2001 14:20:40 -0000 Received: by cartman.boston.geekhouse.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C1DF9322F; Thu, 24 May 2001 10:20:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:20:17 -0400 From: Jim Mock To: Dan Langille Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wi0: wi_cmd: device timeout (cmd=11, val=f100) Message-ID: <20010524102017.C1134@cartman.bos.geekhouse.net> Reply-To: jim@compete.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200105241415.f4OEF4r13655@lists.unixathome.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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 -- - jim mock www.compete.com - jim@FreeBSD.org - - senior systems administrator - Compete, Inc. - ph: 1.617.867.7035 - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message