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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