register dump to syslog (was Re: [Madwifi-users] Issues with the drivers)

[Joerg A. <joe...@gm...>]

Hi Sam,


On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Sam Leffler wrote:

> Let me guess, there's a "WATCHDOG timeout" line missing from above this
> output?  (or maybe it's a xmit timeout).  This is debugging info for me a=
nd
> I should remove it or move it under a debugging control.  You can certain=
ly
> quiet it by remove the ath_hal_dumpstate call in the appropriate interrup=
t
> handler (tasklet) but it's symptomatic of some other problem and unlikely
> to help you.

Maybe I had a similar situation where if_ath.c:ath_tx_timeout() was
regularly called by a netdevice transmit timeout and dumped its registers.
It turned out that the Atheros card (WAG511) didn't join my 802.11b access
point, because the AP had WEP enabled, while the card had not.
The dump went away when I switched WEP on for the card, but the connection
failed for other reasons, I had no time to look into yet.

/J=F6rg