Orinoco - networking hangs on large transfers

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:30:12AM +0000, dids wrote:
> Hi, just found this list.
> 
> I've finally got my orinoco up and running under suse 7.3, kernel 2.4.10
> 
> The problem I am having is that if I the network load is too high on the 
> connection, the adaptor hangs, the rest of my pc is fine, just the pccard. 
> I have tried /etc/pcmcia/network stop eth0
> and /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
> but they hang too.
> The funny thing is the iwconfig still displays values.
> 
> Has anyone else had problems like this.
> orinoco_cs              4320   1 
> orinoco                29552   0  [orinoco_cs]
> hermes                  3232   0  [orinoco_cs orinoco]
> ds                      6416   1  [orinoco_cs]
> yenta_socket            8432   1 
> pcmcia_core            37184   0  [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
> 
> 
> I am using the yenta_socket and the kernel modules	
> I did try using 2.4.13 and latest pcmcia-cs, ( had to use modified init 
> script ), but had the same problem.
> 
> I've run out of ideas now.

Blah.  Send me the output of 'dmesg' right after you load the driver,
and again right after it hangs.

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