[Wireless] Can't connect to wlan

[Benjamin Close]

Yousif Hassan wrote:
> Benjamin Close wrote:
>
>> Sam Leffler wrote:
>>> Yousif Hassan wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 08:06 +1030, Benjamin Close wrote:
>>>>
> <snip>
>>>> The slightly wonky:
>>>> - As reported by someone else:
>>>>   wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 1
>>>>   wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 3
>>>>   wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 4
>>>> appear on startup and occasionally on kldload - however they don't
>>>> appear to adversely affect too much
> <snip>
>>>
>>> wpi doesn't yet support background scan so doing an explicit scan 
>>> from the command line will disconnect you from any ap you care 
>>> connected to. It shouldn't be hard to add bgscan--but that's easy 
>>> for me to say :)
>>>
>> It's certainly on my todo list!
>
> Thanks for reminding me about the bgscan thing.  I had read that 
> somewhere before and completely forgotten!
>
> Ben, are the
> wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 1
> wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 3
> wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 4
> (and other variants thereof)
> messages anything to be concerned about?  It doesn't seem to affect 
> stuff but it does show up on initial startup and every other scan I do.
>
> Thanks to everyone who worked on wpi for a most excellent driver.
The timeouts are related to the firmware not being able to reset the tx 
ring. Normally this isn't too bad as the first thing after resetting the 
tx rings is to stop the firmware and reinit it. Whilst it won't cause a 
crash, it still a bug that needs fixing.

Cheers,
    Benjamin