Problem with wi in CURRENT (and 5.1)

[Robert Hulme]

Thanks for the support :-D

Pulling the card out, reinserting it and doing ifconfig sadly doesn't
help me :(

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Eirik Oeverby
> Sent: 23 June 2003 17:42
> To: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Cc: rob at robhulme.com
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is exactly the problem I have with my wi-driven card 
> aswell. I have a pretty standard Lucent card (Orinoco Silver, 
> 64bit), PCMCIA, in my ThinkPad T21 (see another thread 
> specifically about that machine and its issues with 5.1). It 
> will work for a while, then start spitting out error messages like
> 
> wi0: bad alloc 55c != 2a2, cur 0 nxt 0
> wi0: device timeout
> wi0: bad alloc 573 != 2a2, cur 0 nxt 0
> wi0: device timeout
> 
> and
> 
> wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc02/0
> wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc03/0
> 
> and ofcourse the messages you describe. Pulling the card out 
> and re-inserting it, then ifconfig, brings it back to life 
> for a few minutes or as much as half an hour or so. 
> At first I thought it was a signal level problem, but it's 
> not. I also thought it's an encryption problem, but that's 
> not it either. So I'm really confused - it worked perfectly 
> for weeks on end with 4.8, and now in 5.1/CURRENT it screws 
> me over like this.
> Firmware is at the latest level.
> 
> Just my two cents to confirm your story ;)
> 
> /Eirik
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:26:11 -0700
> "David O'Brien" <freebsd-current at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:48:13AM +0100, Robert Hulme wrote:
> > > I'm having some problems with wi in 5-CURRENT and 5.1 in general.
> > > I'm using a Proxim Skyline 802.11b PC Card (which I 
> believe uses the 
> > > Prism 2 chipset). The PC Card is using the 0.3.0 primary 
> and 0.8.3 
> > > secondary firmware (which I believe is the latest). I have a Dell 
> > > Inspiron 8200.
> > > 
> > > The card works fine in Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.0, but in 
> 5.1 if I 
> > > use ifconfig to bring up the card (for example during 
> boot) it locks 
> > > my laptop up for about a minute while I get loads of 
> error messages 
> > > appear on screen. Eventually I get a 'init failed' and 'tx buffer 
> > > allocation failed (error 12)' error, and although 
> ifconfig says the 
> > > interface is up it doesn't actually work.
> > 
> > See if there isn't updated firmware for your card.  Rumor 
> has it the 
> > MS-Windows driver uploads the latest firmware version into 
> the RAM on 
> > the card.
> > 
> > For Lucent cards you want any versoin 8 firmware from 
> > 
> http://www.expressresponse.com/cgi-bin/proxim02/showFaq.cgi?session_id
> > =1055265419.6837.7&type=&product=Client_Product
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