Re: Locking up of orinoco cards...

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:07:38PM -0700, Vishal Bhargava wrote:
> 
> I am facing a facing a problem with the orinoco cards
> in monitor mode, on an iPAQ. They lock up after
> capturing a few packets (in less than 5 seconds). 
> 
> I would assume it is because of an overload on them
> because of the beacons they would be capturing. 
> 
> dmesg shows...
> 
> orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable
> (dev=c3a30800)
> 
> What could be the problem? How would I be able to
> circumvent this?

I think the orinoco mailing list would be a more appropriate forum for
this question.  I have no idea, but the message implies a driver bug
(locking assumptions violated somewhere).  You might want to verify
that you have the latest driver release.

-- Dave


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