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Date:      Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:36:11 -0700
From:      Norbert Papke <npapke@acm.org>
To:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: serious problem with wi(4) (D-Link DWL-650)
Message-ID:  <20020628103611.1c0a5fe7.npapke@acm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020627152119.GA1331@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es>
References:  <20020627152119.GA1331@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es>

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On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:21:20 +0200
"Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have timeout problems with the D-Link DWL-650 every time I try to
> transmit big files (> 500 KB, for example): the transmission gets
> hanged after 200-300 KB have been transferred (the exact point
> varies). It also sometimes happens when when doing a ping flood (ping
> -s 1400 -f). However, data reception works just fine, including
> promiscuous mode.
> 
> The system is running 4.6-RELEASE. The card is operating in
> infrastructure mode, and it gets correctly associated to a base
> station. WEP-128 bit is enabled.

FWIW, I am experiencing very similar symptoms with a Hawkings WP251 PCI
card using WEP in ad-hoc mode.  I haven't tried to disable WEP yet.  Please see below for 'uname -a' and selected kernel log messages.

Cheers,

-- Norbert Papke.
   npapke@acm.org


FreeBSD proven.sytes.net 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #15: Mon Jun 17 13:26:54 PDT 2002     npapke@proven.sytes.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NGP  i386


wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xcddff000-0xcddfffff irq 12 at device 11.0 on pci0
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:02:dd:30:fb:4d
wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.05, Station 1.03.04

wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0002; event status 0x8000
wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0000; event status 0x8000
wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
wi0: init failed
wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
last message repeated 22 times
wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC
wi0: tx buffer allocation failed
wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC
wi0: mgmt. buffer allocation failed
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 0/0; last status 4000
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 0/44; last status 4044
wi0: xmit failed
wi0: watchdog timeout




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