m8xx_pcmcia

Sébastien Taylor <[email protected]> 21 Feb 2002 19:52:29 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pcmcia.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello, I have been working with the m8xx_pcmcia driver for a couple days
now and have a few questions about it that I'm hopping someone could
answer or at least point me in the right direction.

Does anyone know if Magnus Damm is still working on this driver?  His
email address at [email protected] returned user unknown.

Does anyone know specific boards this driver has been tested with?

The reason I ask these questions is that I suspect this driver might be
the cause of a problem I'm having.  I have tried using Lucent
WaveLAN/IEEE and Netgear 802.11b cards on the RPXLite (mpc823 processor)
and keep having problems.  I've tried different types of cards and
experience similar problems.  The WaveLAN card works, but during large
transfers (or with a ping -s 500 -f rpxlite) I get a kernel panic.  The
Netgear card gives me a similar error, but no kernel panic.  And other
cards, like the 3Com Megahertz 3CCFEM566B have the same behaviour.  I've
attached bellow the error I get when the kernel crashes using the
WaveLAN card in case anyone cares to look at it.

Any pointers would be appreciated,
Thank you.

-- 
Sébastien Taylor
Programmer
PsiNaptic, Inc.
rpx-kernelpanic (text/plain, 1.6 KB)
[email protected]:~# iwconfig eth1
eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"My Network"  Nickname:"HERMES I"
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.437GHz  Cell: 00:30:AB:09:A1:1B
          Bit Rate=11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3  
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0

[email protected]:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
orinoco_cs              6080   2 
orinoco                30096   0  [orinoco_cs]
hermes                  4320   0  [orinoco_cs orinoco]
ds                      8416   1  [orinoco_cs]
m8xx_pcmcia             5072   1 
pcmcia_core            38192   0  [orinoco_cs ds m8xx_pcmcia]
[email protected]:~# Machine check in kernel mode.
Caused by (from SRR1=9032): Unknown values in msr
Oops: machine check, sig: 7
NIP: C0004BB8 XER: E0002C7F LR: C263D8E4 SP: C0125DB0 REGS: c0125d00 TRAP: 0200
MSR: 00009032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11
TASK = c0124010[0] 'swapper' Last syscall: 120 
last math 00000000 last altivec 00000000
GPR00: C263D8C4 C0125DB0 C0124010 80000138 C0125E12 00000218 00000000 000000A2 
GPR08: 00000000 00000000 00000000 C0004BA8 95535093 1001F3E0 00000000 100B0510 
GPR16: 100A8350 00000001 00000001 00000000 00001032 00125EF0 000000A2 C2640000 
GPR24: C0EBDA6C 00000009 00000000 00000044 00000038 C0125DD8 C0EBDA6C 00000000 
Call backtrace: 
C263D8C4 C2641184 C264106C C0003904 C0003A30 C0002810 C0003F84 
C0003F98 C01327C0 C00021E4 
Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler

In interrupt handler - not syncing
Rebooting in 180 seconds..