wi0 down when print a lot of data to screen over ssh

[Michael Proto]

Ren Zhen wrote:
> wi0 goes down when I run a program print a lot of data to
> stdout, or when I use zmrx-zmtx it also goes down.
> 
> kernel says:
> kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 152/0
> last message repeated 7 times
> kernel: wi0: device timeout
> kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 152/0
> kernel: wi0: link state changed to DOWN
> 
> another time kernel says:
> kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x010b; event status 0x8000
> kernel: wi0: xmit failed
> kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 128/0
> last message repeated 3 times
> 

I used to see similar behavior with wi0 on my ThinkPad A30p (IBM High
Rate Wireless, PRISM 2.5) when powersave was enabled via ifconfig (I
believe it may be on by default, not sure about that). If you disable
powersave via 'ifconfig wi0 -powersave' do you still see the problem?


-Proto