orinoco_cs problem/question

[Sridhar Srinivasan <sridhars@nc.rr.com>]

Hi,

I have a Linksys wireless card that uses the orinoco_cs pcmcia driver.
The card works fine (for a while) and then I begin to get a huge
number of errors in the syslog of the form:

Aug 31 11:15:35 hoth kernel: eth1: error -110 reading Rx descriptor.
Frame dropped.
Aug 31 11:15:35 hoth kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to
BAP
Aug 31 11:15:36 hoth last message repeated 435 times
Aug 31 11:15:36 hoth kernel: hermes @ IO 0x100: Timeout waiting for
command completion.
Aug 31 11:15:36 hoth kernel: hermes @ IO 0x100: Error -16 issuing
command.
Aug 31 11:15:36 hoth kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to
BAP
Aug 31 11:15:36 hoth kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to
BAP

I believe this is due to the driver rahter than an issue with the card
itself as I had this occur with a friend's wireless card as well.

I googled for this and found this post
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.2/0821.html which
has an ugly workaround which also works for me.

I wanted to know if anyone else has/had faced this problem and if
there is a fix for this issue. 

Also, I'm using the pcmcia modules from the package
kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.20-3-686. Would I be better served by using
linux-wlan-ng drivers instead of the kernel drivers?

TIA,
sridhar