Re: orinoco_cs problem/question

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

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:46:53AM +1200, Mike Beattie wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:26:15PM -0400, Sridhar Srinivasan wrote:
> > 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 writing Tx descriptor to
> > BAP
> 
> I had a lot of those with an old orinoco_cs version, and older firmware on a
> prism2 card.
> 
> How about you start by telling us the driver version, and the
> chipset/firmware version of your card? (nearly all of this you'll get from
> driver as it loads)

These are the messages that are reported in the syslog: (some of the
lines are wrapped)

Aug 31 21:31:30 hoth kernel: hermes.c: 5 Apr 2002 David Gibson
<hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Aug 31 21:31:30 hoth kernel: orinoco.c 0.11b (David Gibson
<hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Aug 31 21:31:30 hoth kernel: orinoco_cs.c 0.11b (David Gibson
<hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Aug 31 21:31:30 hoth kernel: eth1: Station identity
001f:0002:0001:0004
Aug 31 21:31:30 hoth kernel: eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware
version 1.04
Aug 31 21:31:30 hoth kernel: eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
Aug 31 21:31:30 hoth kernel: eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode
supported
Aug 31 21:31:30 hoth kernel: eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
Aug 31 21:31:30 hoth kernel: eth1: MAC address 00:06:25:15:C9:BD
Aug 31 21:31:30 hoth kernel: eth1: Station name "Prism  I"
Aug 31 21:31:30 hoth kernel: eth1: ready
Aug 31 21:31:30 hoth kernel: eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io
0x0100-0x013f

So I take it that the driver version is 0.11b and the firmware is
Intersil 1.04, correct?

thanks for replying,
sridhar