More on the Orinoco + XI-825 + StrongARM platform...

[Ben Greear]

David Gibson wrote:


>>Is there anywhere I can look to see what 'status 1' might mean?
>>I got over my fear of hacking drivers (hopefully that is a good
>>thing :))
>>
> 
> Status 1 is a "retry error" which I believe means that the firmware
> has retransmitted the packet as many times as it's going to, hasn't
> gotten an acknowledgement, and so has given up.


Is there anything to set (or read) to determine the number of
retries?

I think I may just comment out the printk for this message,
the higher layers can deal with re-transmits as needed (ping -f
is not a very normal type of network load...)


> 
> 
>>Also, would it make sense to re-transmit the packet (or do we
>>even know which packet this relates to?)
>>
> 
> Given that, no.
> 
> 


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