Tx timed out! Resetting card

[mwbogus at yahoo.com]

This is a very similar message to what I get now when my network goes
offline (the linux box goes off, none of the windows boxes go off). I have
worked around it by setting up a ping script that pings a host that is very
reliably there. If the host does not respond, then I re-set the encryption
key and it begins working again.

This behavior started ever since I updated the Lucent firmware to 8.1. I was
going to try the latest orinoco_cs driver but after spending lots and lots
of hours upgrading to RH7.2, I found out that I needed to upgrade my kernel
to something higher than 2.4.7-10 and it was there that I just got worn out.
Maybe next week.

Anyway, if you reset the encryption key, your network will probably be
working again. Sorry this isn't a permanent fix, but it will probably get
your demo up.

Matthew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireless-admin at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:wireless-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Anderson
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 6:18 PM
> To: wireless at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Tx timed out! Resetting card
>
>
>
> Hi, I have set up a peer-to-peer (Ad-Hoc demo) network
> with 2 of
> my laptops using wireless PCMCIA cards (One Orinoco
> Silver and one
> Orinoco Gold) . I want to run some video stream demo
> between
> these two laptops.
>
> But every now and then the log gives me warning msg
> as follows:
>
> Feb 11 17:38:13 pigpen kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1:
> transmit timed out
> Feb 11 17:38:13 pigpen kernel: wvlan_cs: eth1 Tx timed
> out! Resetting card
> Feb 11 17:38:13 pigpen kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address
> on eth1 is 00 02 2d 1f 39 74
> Feb 11 17:38:13 pigpen kernel: wvlan_cs: Valid
> channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
>
> When this happens, my video stream server and client
> just hang there. Does somebody have the same problem
> before?
>
> Here are the configuration and other information about
> the setup:
>
> Laptop A: 1000 MHz CPU, 128 MB mem, running RedHat
> 7.1, kernel 2.4.2.
> /sbin/iwconfig gives:
>
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"Twireless"
> Nickname:"pigpen"
> Frequency:2.462GHz Sensitivity:1/3 Mode:Ad-Hoc
> Access Point: 00:60:1D:1E:71:28
> Bit Rate:2Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:3671-A113-A0
> Power Management:off
> Link quality:0/92 Signal level:-102 dBm Noise
> level:-102 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:146
>
>
> The infomation in the boot log regarding wvlan is as
> follows:
>
>
> Feb 11 16:17:04 pigpen kernel: NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a
> for Linux NET4.0
> Feb 11 16:17:04 pigpen cardmgr[450]: executing:
> 'modprobe wvlan_cs port_type=3 channel=3 eth=1'
> Feb 11 16:17:05 pigpen netfs: Mounting other
> filesystems: succeeded
> Feb 11 16:17:05 pigpen kernel: wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE
> PCMCIA driver v1.0.6
> Feb 11 16:17:05 pigpen kernel: wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas
> Neuhaus <andy at fasta.fh-dortmund.de>
> Feb 11 16:17:05 pigpen kernel: wvlan_cs: index 0x01:
> Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
> Feb 11 16:17:05 pigpen kernel: wvlan_cs: Registered
> netdevice eth1
> Feb 11 16:17:05 pigpen kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address
> on eth1 is 00 02 2d 1f 39 74
> Feb 11 16:17:05 pigpen kernel: wvlan_cs: Warning, you
> are using the old proprietary Ad-Hoc mode (not the
> IBSS
> Ad-Hoc mode).
> Feb 11 16:17:05 pigpen kernel: wvlan_cs: Valid
> channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
> Feb 11 16:17:05 pigpen cardmgr[450]: executing:
> './network start eth1'
> Feb 11 16:17:05 pigpen /etc/hotplug/net.agent:
> register event not handled
> Feb 11 16:17:06 pigpen apmd: apmd startup succeeded
>
>
>
> Laptop B: 800 MHz CPU, 256 MB mem, running RedHat 7.1,
> kernel 2.4.2.
> /sbin/iwconfig gives similar infomation as on Laptop
> A.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Stone.
>
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