Lockups with Orinoco and 2.4.19

[Patrick Cole]

Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 08:01:48PM +0200, Thomas Bueschgens wrote:

> following the diverse suggestions on the list I did the following:
> 
> 1. Return to kernel-driver (2.4.19 kernel).
> 
> After about 40 Minutes again those lockups... system froze
> completely. This enver happened during the use of a "normal" NIC
> 
> 2. Downgrade the firmware of the Orinoco to 6.06 (thanks,
>    Patrick). Still using the kernel-drivers.
> 
> Hmm, First of all I thought this is it... but after about 1 1/2 hours
> the system again froze without reason. 
> 
> Funny thing: Large downloads do not seem to matter... I downloaded
> about 20MBs the first time, about 25MB the second time, just to put
> some stress on the Orinoco.
> 
> The system worked flawlessly... but while fiddling around with ntpdate
> (you know, those VIA-chipsets really have a Clock-problem with Linux)
> the system froze up again.
> 
> I am completely guessing what can be done now. 

In your previous post you said the wavelan2_cs driver was also locking
up.  That driver has always worked 100% for me, the only lockups I've
ever gotten were from orinoco 0.12 with the borked locking scheme.

As below, I'd say your problem lies with hardware, IRQ conflicts, I/O
port probe conflicts, or something other than the software.
 
-- 
Patrick Cole <Patrick.Cole at anu.edu.au>
Programmer, the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU 
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