orinoco_cs interrupt storm with 2.4.18-pre7

[mwbogus at yahoo.com]

I use the Ad-hoc mode with an arbitrary ESSID. I've only tried Ad-hoc mode
with "Ad-hoc" as the ESSID also, but I think it will work with anything as
long as both your cards are set to the same ESSID.

Matthew Ward

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireless-admin at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:wireless-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Ben Greear
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 1:57 PM
> To: wireless at lists.samba.org
> Subject: orinoco_cs interrupt storm with 2.4.18-pre7
>
>
> Hello!
>
> I just got my ORiNOCO silver card working (as far as I can tell)
> with the 2.4.18-pre7 kernel.  Thanks for all the good documentation!
>
> One thing I noticed though, if I put it in ad-hoc mode, I get a huge
> number of errors in the log:
>
> Feb  2 09:16:07 lanforge-ice last message repeated 1883 times
> Feb  2 09:16:07 lanforge-ice kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on
> device ide1(22,0)
> Feb  2 09:16:07 lanforge-ice kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing
> packet header to BAP
> Feb  2 09:16:09 lanforge-ice last message repeated 1889 times
> Feb  2 09:16:09 lanforge-ice kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on
> device ide1(22,0)
> Feb  2 09:16:09 lanforge-ice kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing
> packet header to BAP
> Feb  2 09:16:11 lanforge-ice last message repeated 1826 times
> Feb  2 09:16:11 lanforge-ice kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on
> device ide1(22,0)
> Feb  2 09:16:11 lanforge-ice kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing
> packet header to BAP
> Feb  2 09:16:13 lanforge-ice last message repeated 1836 times
>
> Also at this time, the K-softirq process was using 99% of
> the CPU.
>
> Note that as far as I know, there are no other 802.11b devices
> operating around here.
>
> On a slightly different topic, I have two of the Silver cards, and no
> base station.  Do I put both machines in ad-hoc mode in order to talk
> to each other?  If not, what MODE and/or ESSID do I use?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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