Re: Airport "Tx error" problem

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Well, I have some additional information on this problem.

It appears that when I configure the interface statically, it all works 
fine.  If I use DHCP to configure it (with pump), then I have the problem 
below -- can't communicate to anywhere.  I have to rmmod airport and 
orinoco and then bring it up statically for it to work again.

I get the Tx errors whether it's configured statically or dynamically.  
Only when it is configured statically can I actually communicate.


On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 10:08  AM, John Goerzen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with my Apple Airport card in a PowerBook G4 400MHz:
>
> I will load the module, use iwconfig to set my key, and then try to
> start the normal DHCP process.  The kernel logs these errors:
>
> eth1: Tx error, status 4 (FID=01E3)
> eth1: Tx error, status 4 (FID=01E3)
> eth1: Tx error, status 4 (FID=01CF)
> etc ...
>
> I'm using kernel 2.2.18-ben0 with version 0.09b of airport.c and
> orinoco.c.  I found a message at
> http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/wireless/2001-December/003534.html
> that seems to include a patch for a related problem.  Looking at the
> source, it doesn't include the comments in that patch but seems
> different enough that I can't tell quite whether or not it's been
> patched.  (I'm not at all an expert in these things)
>
> I had previously been using a Wavelan Silver PCMCIA card with the
> same configuration, and it worked fine.  I have also tried an earlier
> ben0 kernel and got the same results.  The Airport card works fine in 
> MacOS
> X.
>
> Thanks,
> John Goerzen
> jgoerzen@complete.org
>
>
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