Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:56:17 -0400 From: "Jim Flowers" <jflowers@ezo.net> To: "Richard Puga" <puga@maui.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: WaveLAN IEEE device timeout Message-ID: <002d01beea96$0c18d2e0$abd396ce@eznet> References: <37BC57B8.54E11F99@maui.com>
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I use the WaveLAN ISA/IEEE card in FreeBSD systems without problems (4 of them so far). I had to use cvsup to get Bill Paul's driver installed as part of 3.2-stable. The driver seems to be very stable and so far we have not had any lockups or other mis-operations (about 2 months). Not as good a record for the WaveLAN/EC converters. They appear to be a little sensitive and currently do not support raw bit rates above 2Mb/s although the Turbo cards work OK at that rate in them. Best data rates are obtained from an ISA/IEEE card in a fbsd box to a fbsd box connected to the Ethernet port of WavePOINT II access controller, both using Turbo cards. The WaveLAN fbsd is plain vanilla and works OK with natd and ipfw on the wi0 interface. Can't use the SKIP port with the wi0 interface due to some sort of interaction that I was never able to figure out. Doing both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint over distances to 2.1 miles. No dropouts. I would suggest you try -stable. It's worth the effort and the standard LINT kernel entries and rc.conf setup stuff is about all you need. Even supports hot card swapping. ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Puga <puga@maui.com> To: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 3:15 PM Subject: WaveLAN IEEE device timeout > I am having a problem with 2 WaveLan IEE Turbo PC cards. > > One is running via an isa adaptor in a desktop which is lynked in ad-hoc > > mode to a lap top a couple of miles away through the use of external > anennas. > > Obvously both machines are stationary and dont move. I am running > 3.2-RELEASE-PAO on both machines. I am running PAO because I was not > able to intergrate the driver itself to 3.2R although I will > try when I have more time. The PAO install may have somgint to do with > my problem so I wanted to point it out. However I am using the lastest > driver I found on your web page located at > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/WaveLAN/3.0 and dated July 20th. > > > The cards work great and I have a solid lynk according to the WaveLAN > diagnostics in windows95. > > Under FreeBSD I get about 4.6 megabits tranfer, which I am very happy > with. > > But there does seem to be an intermitant problem. > > On occation (sometimes days somtimes hours) the card will lock up. Both > lights on the card will just stay on. I get the following messages > on the console. > > Aug 15 07:21:06 cray100 /kernel: wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on > NIC > Aug 15 07:21:06 cray100 /kernel: wi0: tx buffer allocation failed > Aug 15 07:21:06 cray100 /kernel: wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on > NIC > Aug 15 07:21:06 cray100 /kernel: wi0: mgmt. buffer allocation failed > Aug 15 07:21:09 cray100 /kernel: wi0: xmit failed > Aug 15 07:21:15 cray100 /kernel: wi0: device timeout > Aug 15 07:21:15 cray100 /kernel: wi0: init failed > > I thought it might be a problem with a particular card but it hapens at > both ends. > > The machine it has happend more often on is an AMD K6 running at 350Mhz > and is the computer with > the ISA adaptor. The other is a Panasonic 166Mhz laptop. > > I there is any more information I can provde please let me know. > > Thank you for your time > > Richard Puga > puga@mauibuilt.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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