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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:56:00 -0800
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From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>
Subject: Sudden "wi" errors in 4.5-STABLE
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I have a Lucent Orinoco 802.11b card (with latest firmware) running in an 
ISA<->PCMCIA adaptor on a box running 4.5-STABLE.

I have found that - on rare occasion - the "wi" driver suddenly starts 
spazzing out, generating lots of errors like the following:

Feb 24 12:52:57 ns /kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 1f6/0; last status 4000
Feb 24 12:52:57 ns /kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 1f6/44; last status 4044
Feb 24 12:52:57 ns /kernel: wi0: xmit failed
...
Feb 25 11:34:56 ns /kernel: wi0: mgmt. buffer allocation failed
Feb 25 11:39:36 ns /kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 0/0; last status 4000
Feb 25 11:39:36 ns /kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 0/44; last status 4044
Feb 25 11:39:36 ns /kernel: wi0: xmit failed
Feb 25 11:41:55 ns /kernel: wi0: watchdog timeout
Feb 25 11:41:55 ns /kernel: wi0: init failed
Feb 25 11:41:55 ns /kernel: wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC
Feb 25 11:41:55 ns /kernel: wi0: tx buffer allocation failed
Feb 25 11:41:55 ns /kernel: wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC
Feb 25 11:41:55 ns /kernel: wi0: mgmt. buffer allocation failed

When this happens, all subsequent IP-level communication on the "wi0" 
interface ceases (although "netstat -i" reports that some layer-2 packets 
continue to be sent/received).

Has anyone else seen this happen?  Does anyone have a fix?

	Ross.


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