Re: [Madwifi-users] hardware error; resetting

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It is indeed a broadcom based AP (Linksys)...

Thanks for the heads-up...

/mike

Tom Marshall wrote:

>I have the same issue with my Linksys WRT54G and I think it's an .11g
>interop problem between madwifi and Broadcom.  Is your AP based on a
>Broadcom chip?  If it's a WRT54G or WAP54G, I'm pretty sure it is.  Nobody
>seems to have found the cause, or even whether the problem is with the AP or
>the madwifi driver.  I suspect the driver because it seems to work fine when
>I reboot into Win32, but that's not hard evidence.  It could be that the
>Broadcom driver is doing something that's out of spec and the madwifi driver
>is less forgiving than the Win32 driver.
>
>I've worked around the issue temporarily by forcing my madwifi driver into
>.11b mode.  It's not an optimal solution but it works.
>
>On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:29:07PM -0500, ce...@co... wrote:
>
>>2 issues:
>>
>>1. As posted earlier, I am getting thousands of these after a day or so of
>>running... Nothing obvious to me in the logs as I don't have chip docs to
>>decipher the register dumps posted in my prior email.
>>
>>2. the hardware reset appears to be missing something as it eventually
>>does nothing to alleviate the "hardware error" where removing the module,
>>reinserting it does...
>>
>>So, at this point I have a cron job running once an hour to do just that...
>>
>>This has drastically reduced the number of errors reported which tells me
>>that  something is missing in the reset sequence that the module load
>>toggles...
>>
>>Clearly it is a nasty hack and even more intrusive on my DHCP based laptop
>>than the static IP desktop with NFS mounts over wirelss (yes, I know I am
>>asking for trouble - but hey where is the fun in just surfing...)
>>
>>I have seen only one other post regarding "hardware error; resetting" in
>>the bug list...  Is this something unique to Linksys/Orinoco? or have I
>>missed an earlier discussion regarding a work-around?
>>
>>So far I have tried the following configs with the same result:
>>Kernel 2.4.19- `22
>>RH 7.2/7.3
>>desktop (amd)
>>laptop (dell PIII)
>>PCMCIA (carbus)
>>PCI
>>Linksys cards in all
>>madwifi:
>>ath_hal: 0.9.5.11 BETA (Sam Leffler <sa...@er...>)
>>wlan: 0.7.1.1 BETA (Sam Leffler <sa...@er...>)
>>ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler <sa...@er...>)
>>
>>Perhaps, interesting things about my setup is potential 2.4GHz
>>interference sources:
>>1. Wireless phone
>>2. 802.11b Access point hardcoded to different channel
>>3. linksys 11G hard coded to 11G and seperate channel.
>>
>>The "b" access point is needed as linksys router locks up with mixed 11b
>>and 11G access - I should point out that although I saw the above behavior
>>prior to setting up old 11b for my "legacy" devices, I recently discovered
>>my neighbor's 11b router can be seen from my house so I have always and
>>will always have 11b "interference".
>>
>>Happy to hack and provide any additional debug needed, just need a little
>>guidance as to either where I can find Spec/Docs for the chip to decipher
>>reg dumps or what additional info is needed to debug this...
>>
>>Any opinions and/or advice on locking cards themselvs into 11G as I have
>>the router?
>>
>>/mike
>>
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