WLAN card not working anymore

[Harti Brandt]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:

MWL>In message: <20030702130021.J30117 at beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
MWL>            Harti Brandt <brandt at fokus.fraunhofer.de> writes:
MWL>: my "Avaya Wireless PC Card" (actually seems to be a Lucent) stopped to
MWL>: work in my laptop as I updated the kernel today. It now says "pcic0: Card
MWL>: type unrecognized by bridge is unsupported.". What does this mean and what
MWL>: can I do about it?
MWL>
MWL>What did you upgrad from and to?

>From -CURRENT from june 12th to yesterday's -CURRENT. I have now made
a newcard kernel instead of oldcard. The card is recogniced but four out
of five times I try to configure it (via dhcp) it doesn't work. I get
usually the following:

Jul  3 09:18:29 harti kernel: wi0: <Avaya Communication Avaya Wireless PC Card> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard0
Jul  3 09:18:29 harti kernel: wi0: 802.11 address: 00:02:2d:42:a2:d7
Jul  3 09:18:29 harti kernel: wi0: using Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE
Jul  3 09:18:29 harti kernel: wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (7.52.1)
Jul  3 09:18:29 harti kernel: wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
Jul  3 09:19:18 harti kernel: wi0: bad alloc 1f9 != 1f6, cur 0 nxt 0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0002; event status 0x8080
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0121; event status 0x8080
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti last message repeated 2 times

-> card ejected

Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc03/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc04/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc01/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc09/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc07/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc83/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc06/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc25/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc84/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc0e/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc85/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc20/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc80/0
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: failed to allocate 2372 bytes on NIC
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: tx buffer allocation failed (error 12)
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: interface not running
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: Sleeping for 10ms in wi_stop
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti last message repeated 49 times
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
Jul  3 09:19:19 harti kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc80/0
Jul  3 09:19:20 harti kernel: wi0: detached
Jul  3 09:19:20 harti dhclient: send_packet: No route to host
Jul  3 09:19:20 harti dhclient: receive_packet failed on wi0: No route to host

When it works it says:

Jul  3 10:53:26 harti kernel: wi0: <Avaya Communication Avaya Wireless PC Card> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard0
Jul  3 10:53:27 harti kernel: wi0: 802.11 address: 00:02:2d:42:a2:d7
Jul  3 10:53:27 harti kernel: wi0: using Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE
Jul  3 10:53:27 harti kernel: wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (7.52.1)
Jul  3 10:53:27 harti kernel: wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
Jul  3 10:53:45 harti dhclient: New Network Number: 195.37.78.0
Jul  3 10:53:45 harti dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 195.37.78.255
Jul  3 10:53:45 harti kernel: wi0: bad alloc 205 != 202, cur 0 nxt 0
Jul  3 10:53:45 harti dhclient: New IP Address (wi0): 195.37.78.200
Jul  3 10:53:45 harti dhclient: New Subnet Mask (wi0): 255.255.255.0
Jul  3 10:53:45 harti dhclient: New Broadcast Address (wi0): 195.37.78.255
Jul  3 10:53:45 harti dhclient: New Routers: 195.37.78.1

Regards,
harti
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harti brandt,
http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private
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