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

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:08:01PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
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> David Gibson wrote:
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> >>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.
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> Is there anything to set (or read) to determine the number of
> retries?

There are the short and long retry limit RIDs.  I don't recall what
their exact meaning is though, and there currently isn't a way of
setting them through the driver.

> 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...)

That seems reasonable.

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