[Acx100-devel] acx100 testing needed for acx_l_get_tx_desc problem

[Denis V. <vd...@il...>]

I think that acx100 troubles are happening because of
acx_l_get_tx_desc sometimes returning NULL.

Symptom looks like this in debug=3D0xffff log:

found station with matching ESSID! ('xxx' station, 'xxx' config)
caps updated from 0x0040 to 0x0040
matching station found: 00:0F:3D:97:B3:6A, joining
00739f14 =9A =9A =3D=3D> acx_l_transmit_authen1
Sending authentication1 request, awaiting response!
00739f14 =9A =9A =9A =3D=3D> acx_l_get_tx_desc
00739f14 =9A =9A =9A <=3D=3D acx_l_get_tx_desc
00739f14 =9A =9A <=3D=3D acx_l_transmit_authen1

Normally, it must look like this:

found station with matching ESSID! ('xxx' station, 'xxx' config)
caps updated from 0x0040 to 0x0040
matching station found: 00:0F:3D:97:B3:6A, joining
00774f29 =9A =9A =3D=3D> acx_l_transmit_authen1
Sending authentication1 request, awaiting response!
00774f29 =9A =9A =9A =3D=3D> acx_l_get_tx_desc
tx: got desc 0, 15 remain
00774f29 =9A =9A =9A <=3D=3D acx_l_get_tx_desc
00774f29 =9A =9A =9A =3D=3D> acx_l_dma_tx_data
00774f29 =9A =9A =9A =9A =3D=3D> acx_get_packet_type_string
00774f29 =9A =9A =9A =9A <=3D=3D acx_get_packet_type_string
tx: pkt (MGMT/Authen): len 30 (24/6) rate 010 status 1
=2E...

Current snapshot fals most of the time, sometimes works.
It's not acceptable. I want to make it work always.

I think it broke somewhere in the shapshot sequence:

acx-20050626.tar.bz2
acx-20050627.tar.bz2 + acx-20050627.acx100fixed.patch
acx-20050628.tar.bz2 + acx-20050627.acx100fixed.patch
acx-20050629.5-rockhard.tar.bz2 + acx-20050627.acx100fixed.patch
=2E..
acx-20050720.tar.bz2 + acx-20050627.acx100fixed.patch
acx-20050722.tar.bz2 + acx-20050722.acx100fixed.patch
=2E..

I'd be grateful if an owner of acx100 will test these and will
inform up when it started to show erratic behavoiur.
=2D-
vda