From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Oct 26 0:47:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a1-3a105.neo.rr.com [24.93.180.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3536D37B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e9Q7iaC20730; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 03:44:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 03:44:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin To: Peter Radcliffe Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help with WaveLAN! In-Reply-To: <20001026032431.A24708@pir.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > >>> wi0: at port 0x240-0x27f irq 3 slot 0 on pccard0 > > >>> wi0: Ethernet address: 00:38:af:c0:00:8e > > >>> wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC > > >>> wi0: tx buffer allocation failed > > >> > > >> Classic wrong IRQ problem, has been rehashed a dozen times on this list. > > The error message is correct - the driver is failing to do things to > the card. > Search the archives for this list for 'wi0: tx buffer allocation failed' > I get a couple of hundred hits, most of them look relevant. > > Many of them are me telling people to check IRQs. Possibly something like: wi0: tx buffer allocation failed (Interrupt problem?) ...might be appropriate? I'm assuming that this message comes from the wi driver itself - if so, I think that the extra bytes sucked up in the kernel could help eliminate questions like this... The error message itself as it is really doesn't say "wrong interrupt, dummy!" Actually, it makes me think of a memory-related problem. Of course, my opinion is that IRQs 2-4, 9, and 14 shouldn't even be offered in the first place... (I didn't check that they are, BTW - but just in case...) If someone has a machine with no serial ports, let them put 3 & 4 back in pccard.conf if they want to... --mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message