orinoco_cs interrupt storm with 2.4.18-pre7

[David Gibson]

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
> 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.

Hmmm... that's odd.

> 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?

Please send the output of ifconfig, iwconfig and the output from dmesg
immediately after you insert the card.

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