error writing packet

teddy at angin.com teddy at angin.com
Sat Aug 4 03:33:51 EST 2001


On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:54:06AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:42:16PM +0700, Teddy wrote:
> 
> This error occurs on a number of cards.  It is an error reported by
> the firmware when accessing the card's memory.  Unfortunately we
> haven't been able to figure out exactly what causes it to occur.
> Despite the error messages are you able to receive and transmit data?

  Yes, of course. It's still working properly. But I find any errors messages reported by kern.log.
  'error -5 writting packet date to BAP'
  'eth2: Tx timeout! Resetting card.'
  What are these mean ???

> Could you please also give me the full model information on the card,
> including the output from 'cardctl ident' and all the startup messages
> from the driver (particularly the "Firware ID" message).

  This is the full information, that I captured from kern.log.
  ---------------------------------------------------

  cheetah:[10]~# tail -80f /var/log/kern.log
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.27
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel:   kernel build: 2.4.5 #1 Tue Jul 17 15:29:50 JAVT 2001
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel:   options:  [pci] [cardbus]
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel: cs.c 1.274 2001/03/05 04:01:49 (David Hinds)
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel: i82365.c 1.334 2001/04/19 02:27:45 (David Hinds)
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel:   Vadem VG-469 rev 00 ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel:     host opts [0]: none
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel:     host opts [1]: none
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel:     ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,7,15 polling interval = 1000 ms
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel:   Vadem VG-469 rev 00 ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e2 ofs 0x00
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel:     host opts [0]: none
  Aug  1 10:07:13 Cheetah kernel:     host opts [1]: none
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel:     ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,7,15 polling interval = 1000 ms
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: cs: register_ss_entry(4, 0xc482861c)
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: ds.c 1.109 2001/01/11 01:31:50 (David Hinds)
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: ds_open(socket 0)
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: ds_open(socket 1)
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: ds_open(socket 2)
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: ds_open(socket 3)
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: ds_open(socket 4)
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: ds_open(socket 4)
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: clean.
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: hermes.c: 12 Dec 2000 David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: orinoco.c 0.07 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: dldwd: David's Less Dodgy WaveLAN/IEEE Driver
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: orinoco_cs.c 0.06 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: ds: register_pccard_driver('orinoco_cs')
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x100-0x107 0x170-0x177 0x290-0x297 0x370-0x37f 0x3c0-0x3e7 0x4d0-0x4d7
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0178-0x028f: clean.
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0298-0x036f: clean.
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0380-0x03bf: clean.
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x03e8-0x04cf: clean.
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: eth1: Firmware ID 1F vendor 0x1 (Lucent) version 6.16
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported.
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported.
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: eth1: WEP supported, "128"-bit key.
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:1D:37:83
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: eth1: ready
  Aug  1 10:07:14 Cheetah kernel: eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0180-0x01bf
  Aug  1 10:07:16 Cheetah kernel: eth2: Firmware ID 1F vendor 0x1 (Lucent) version 6.06
  Aug  1 10:07:16 Cheetah kernel: eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported.
  Aug  1 10:07:16 Cheetah kernel: eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported.
  Aug  1 10:07:16 Cheetah kernel: eth2: WEP supported, "128"-bit key.
  Aug  1 10:07:16 Cheetah kernel: eth2: MAC address 00:02:2D:0B:C0:00
  Aug  1 10:07:16 Cheetah kernel: eth2: Station name "HERMES I"
  Aug  1 10:07:16 Cheetah kernel: eth2: ready
  Aug  1 10:07:16 Cheetah kernel: eth2: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 5, io 0x0200-0x023f
  Aug  1 10:21:25 Cheetah kernel: eth2: Error -5 writing packet data to BAP
  Aug  1 10:21:57 Cheetah last message repeated 5 times
  Aug  1 10:22:13 Cheetah last message repeated 2 times
  Aug  1 10:51:26 Cheetah kernel: ip_tables: (c)2000 Netfilter core team
  Aug  1 10:51:39 Cheetah kernel: ip_conntrack (511 buckets, 4088 max)
  Aug  1 12:02:03 Cheetah kernel: eth2: Error -5 writing packet data to BAP
  Aug  1 12:02:03 Cheetah last message repeated 4 times
  Aug  2 10:07:00 Cheetah kernel: eth2: Error -5 writing packet data to BAP
  Aug  2 10:07:02 Cheetah last message repeated 14 times
  Aug  2 14:33:52 Cheetah kernel: eth2: Error -5 writing packet data to BAP
  Aug  2 22:00:07 Cheetah kernel: eth2: Error -5 writing packet data to BAP
  Aug  2 22:00:08 Cheetah last message repeated 6 times
  Aug  3 09:12:21 Cheetah kernel: ds_open(socket 0)
  Aug  3 09:12:21 Cheetah kernel: ds_open(socket 1)
  Aug  3 09:12:21 Cheetah kernel: ds_open(socket 2)
  Aug  3 09:12:21 Cheetah kernel: ds_open(socket 3)
  Aug  3 09:12:21 Cheetah kernel: ds_open(socket 4)
  Aug  3 09:12:21 Cheetah kernel: ds_release(socket 0)
  Aug  3 09:12:21 Cheetah kernel: ds_release(socket 1)
  Aug  3 09:12:21 Cheetah kernel: ds_release(socket 2)
  Aug  3 09:12:21 Cheetah kernel: ds_release(socket 3)
  Aug  3 09:33:45 Cheetah kernel: eth2: Error -5 writing packet data to BAP
  Aug  3 09:33:49 Cheetah last message repeated 150 times
  Aug  3 16:02:24 Cheetah kernel: eth2: Error -5 writing packet data to BAP
  Aug  3 16:02:31 Cheetah last message repeated 257 times
  Aug  3 18:18:36 Cheetah kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth2: transmit timed out
  Aug  3 18:18:36 Cheetah kernel: eth2: Tx timeout! Resetting card.
 
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  cheetah:[11]~# cardctl ident
  Socket 0:
  product info: "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE", "Version 01.01", ""
  manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
  function: 6 (network)
  Socket 1:
  no product info available
  Socket 2:
  product info: "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE", "Version 01.01", ""
  manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
  function: 6 (network)
  Socket 3:
  no product info available
		  
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Thank's
Teddy





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