Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:15:04 -1000 From: Richard Puga <puga@maui.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: WaveLAN IEEE device timeout Message-ID: <37BC57B8.54E11F99@maui.com>
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I am having a problem with 2 WaveLan IEE Turbo PC cards. One is running via an isa adaptor in a desktop which is lynked in ad-hoc mode to a lap top a couple of miles away through the use of external anennas. Obvously both machines are stationary and dont move. I am running 3.2-RELEASE-PAO on both machines. I am running PAO because I was not able to intergrate the driver itself to 3.2R although I will try when I have more time. The PAO install may have somgint to do with my problem so I wanted to point it out. However I am using the lastest driver I found on your web page located at http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/WaveLAN/3.0 and dated July 20th. The cards work great and I have a solid lynk according to the WaveLAN diagnostics in windows95. Under FreeBSD I get about 4.6 megabits tranfer, which I am very happy with. But there does seem to be an intermitant problem. On occation (sometimes days somtimes hours) the card will lock up. Both lights on the card will just stay on. I get the following messages on the console. Aug 15 07:21:06 cray100 /kernel: wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC Aug 15 07:21:06 cray100 /kernel: wi0: tx buffer allocation failed Aug 15 07:21:06 cray100 /kernel: wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC Aug 15 07:21:06 cray100 /kernel: wi0: mgmt. buffer allocation failed Aug 15 07:21:09 cray100 /kernel: wi0: xmit failed Aug 15 07:21:15 cray100 /kernel: wi0: device timeout Aug 15 07:21:15 cray100 /kernel: wi0: init failed I thought it might be a problem with a particular card but it hapens at both ends. The machine it has happend more often on is an AMD K6 running at 350Mhz and is the computer with the ISA adaptor. The other is a Panasonic 166Mhz laptop. I there is any more information I can provde please let me know. Thank you for your time Richard Puga puga@mauibuilt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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