Tx timeout problem

[dympna at daconi.co.uk]

David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote on 10.12.2002,
00:57:32:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:59:27AM +0100, dympna at daconi.co.uk wrote:
> > Please can anyone help me fix this problem with my gold wireless card 
> > slotted into my PCMCIA on my Dell running Red Hat 8.0 with upgraded 
> > kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0
> >  
> >   tia
> >      Dympna
> > 
> > Here is the dmesg output (I have deleted non useful lines and put xx:xx 
> > into my Mac addresses.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > Socket status: 30000010
> > > cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xc00-0xc07 0xc10-0xc17 
> > > 0xc48-0xc57 0xc68-0xc6f 0xcd0-0xcd7
> > > cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f 
> > > 0x4d0-0x4d7
> > > cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
> > > cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
> > > hermes.c: 5 Apr 2002 David Gibson 
> > > orinoco.c 0.11b (David Gibson  and others)
> > > orinoco_cs.c 0.11b (David Gibson  and others)
> > > divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
> > > eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:000a
> > > eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.10
> > > eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> > > eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> > > eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
> > > eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:xx:xx:xx
> > > eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
> > > eth1: ready
> > > eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 5, io 0x0100-0x013f
> > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> > > eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card. ALLOCFID=01f7, TXCOMPLFID=01e3, 
> > > EVSTAT=808b
> > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> > > eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card. ALLOCFID=01f7, TXCOMPLFID=01e3, 
> > > EVSTAT=808b
> > > mtrr: Serverworks LE detected. Write-combining disabled.
> > > mtrr: your processor doesn't support write-combining
> > > mtrr: Serverworks LE detected. Write-combining disabled.
> > > mtrr: your processor doesn't support write-combining
> > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> > > eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card. ALLOCFID=01f7, TXCOMPLFID=01e3, 
> > > EVSTAT=808b
> > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> > > eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card. ALLOCFID=01f7, TXCOMPLFID=01e3, 
> > > EVSTAT=808b
> > > ...
> > > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> 
> The problem is that you're not receiving interrupts from the card.
> This would be due to some misconfiguration or problem with the PCMCIA
> subsystem, or with system interrupt routing, rather than in the driver
> itself.
> 
> -- 
> David Gibson			| For every complex problem there is a
> david at gibson.dropbear.id.au	| solution which is simple, neat and
> 				| wrong.
Thank you David for reply. I will try changing the irq used and follow
other guidelines in the PCMCIA-HOWTO. Should it be possible to run with
a wired card on eth0 while eth1 is wireless?

All seems fine except for errors on transmit as shown by output from
iwconfig and netstat -i.

Thanks again
   Dympna
>>
# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"daconinet"  Nickname:"daconi2"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point:
00:02:2D:1D:xx:xx
          Bit Rate=2Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
          Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:45/92  Signal level:-44 dBm  Noise level:-89 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:C0:9F:07:xx:xx
          inet addr:192.168.2.3  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:485 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:585 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:173873 (169.7 Kb)  TX bytes:86277 (84.2 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:2D:20:xx:xx
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:5 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:1980 (1.9 Kb)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:4794 (4.6 Kb)  TX bytes:4794 (4.6 Kb)