orinoco_cs interrupt storm with 2.4.18-pre7

[Ben Greear]

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:57:12AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
>>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
>>
> 
> ide1(22,0) == hdc?
> 
> Is your CDROM producing disk change events every few seconds?


Something like that...I'm not sure what's up with those messages, but
they are always there.  Any idea bout the 2k times-a-second orinoco
messages?


> 
> 
>>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?
>>
> 
> AdHoc mode with same ESSID. Actually, I you can do IBSS AdHoc then you can
> have some people use managed.


Thanks, I'll try that tomorrow when I get my other machine
configured...


> 
> 


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