D-Link DWL-650H
David Gibson
david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Fri Aug 2 10:37:49 EST 2002
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:24:20AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hi, Johnny!
>
> > > I tried "testing" driver and it works after many times of restarting
> > > the card using cardctl......it looked like it receives erroneous
> > > packets occasionally.
>
> D-Link DWL-650H sometimes loses interrupts informing the driver that the
> buffer has been allocated. In 4 in 5 cases it loses the interrupt for the
> third packet being sent. In the remaining 1 in 5 cases it works fine.
> The orinoco driver is very sensitive to this problem - it won't send more
> data until the interrupt arrives.
Ah, so *that*'s the problem we're having with the DWL-650H. How odd.
Are we just losing the interrupt, or are we losing the event entirely
(i.e. is the allocation bit set in EVSTAT).
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