wi0 watchdog timeout

Hi,

please keep me CCed, I'm not subscribed.

I've two Orinocco OEM PCMCIA cards (WaveLAN), one in my desktop system 
(-stable from Feb. 5). Now I wanted to test both with a friend, but he 
didn't even get's the signal strength display on his W2K laptop (at a 
distance of 1m this isn't something I expected). Then I found the "wi0: 
watchdog timeout" in the output of dmesg. I think this is the problem we 
have. So I searched for it with google and found some irq tips. But they 
didn't work for me:

(105) netchild@ttyp0 > sysctl -a | grep irq
hw.pcic.irq: 15

(107) netchild@ttyp0 > ps auxww |grep pccardd
root        78  0.0  0.3   432  312  ??  Is   11:06PM   0:00.29 pccardd 
-I -i 15 -f /etc/defaults/pccard.conf

pcic0: <TI PCI-1211 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 3 at device 10.0 on pci0
pcic0: PCI Memory allocated: 0x44000000
pcic0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [pwr save][FUNC pci int + CSC serial isa irq]
pccard0: <PC Card bus (classic)> on pcic0

wi0: <WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11> at port 0x240-0x27f irq 3 slot 0 on pccard0
wi0: Ethernet address: 00:60:b3:68:b6:67
wi0: watchdog timeout

(102) root@ttyp0 # wicontrol -i wi0
NIC serial number:                      [ 99SA01000000 ]
Station name:                           [ [email protected] ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ FreeBSD IBSS ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [ FreeBSD IBSS ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [  ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 00:00:00:00:00:00 ]
Channel list:                           [ 8191 ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 3 ]
Current channel:                        [ 3 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 81 27 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 3 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:60:b3:68:b6:67 ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 3 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 2 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2347 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ Off ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
WEP encryption:                         [ On ]
TX encryption key:                      [ ]

The firmware is at revision 1.3.4.

In the thread "Lucent wavelan giving wi0: watchdog timeout" Neal C. Ford 
said on Jul 16, 2001, that the PCI adapter may be the problem. Did 
someone solved the problem?

Bye,
Alexander.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message