Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 May 2002 11:25:17 +1000 | From | David Gibson <> | Subject | Re: Orinoco Wireless driver bugs in 2.5.17 |
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On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:24:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Alan, > > Could you be more precise and point out which kernel start > > failing ? > > Certainly in 2.4.18 (and I've seen a pile of other similar reports).
Ah, bugger.
> > If I remember properly my debug session with Alan (that was a > > long while ago), the COR reset was screwing up the firmware (well, how > > many time did I told you to not make it mandatory ?). > > Long time ago -its been behaving well until fairly recently > > > Alan has an old Compaq card (the Intersil PrismII variety, not > > the new Lucent one) and his firmware is probably not very fresh. > > Oldish firmware definitely. The newer driver finds the card registers > it but fails on all tx/rx and reports no signal and noise of > 130/150 or so (as opposed to db). Flipping back to the older kernel it > works happily.
The signal/noise bit is probably a red herring. We have problems with the reporting of this, but it's mostly cosmetic. I seem to have confusing and contradictory information about how to interpret the values the firmware reports.
> Any specific info/debug/traces that would help ?
Specific error messages on Tx/Rx and also the firmware version as reported on module load would be very helpful.
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