3Com AirConnect Tx timeout

[Sarantis Paskalis]

Hello,

Sorry, if this is not the right place to ask such questions.

I was trying to make this 3Com AirConnect 3CRWE73796B card work under
RedHat 7.2.  It kind of works now, but the Tx timeouts are too numerous to
make it bearable.  There is also this buzzing sound from the card, when 
hitting a timeout (or so I think).   I think I have tried everything I 
could find in google, yet this error persists.  I am not sure what 
information to include, so if anything is missing, please let me know. 

kernel 2.4.17-0.18 (pulled from rawhide and recompiled)
orinoco-0.10 (downloaded from http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/)
wireless-tools-24beta
pcmcia-cs-31


dmesg:
hermes.c: 16 Jan 2002 David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.10 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.10 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
eth1: Station identity 001f:0002:0002:0001
eth1: Looks like a Symbol firmware version [V2.20-02] (parsing to 22002)
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:50:DA:F5:93:1F
eth1: Station name "Prism  I"
eth1: ready
eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 9, io 0x0100-0x0147
eth1: Tx error, status 4 (FID=00E4)
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card.
.....repeating the last 3 lines...


/var/log/messages:
Feb 27 17:44:13 laptop01 kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
Feb 27 17:44:13 laptop01 kernel:   options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Feb 27 17:44:13 laptop01 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0
Feb 27 17:44:13 laptop01 kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:04.1
Feb 27 17:44:13 laptop01 kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:01.0
Feb 27 17:44:13 laptop01 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.1
Feb 27 17:44:13 laptop01 kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:04.0
Feb 27 17:44:13 laptop01 kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:01.0
Feb 27 17:44:13 laptop01 kernel: Yenta IRQ list 0698, PCI irq11
Feb 27 17:44:13 laptop01 kernel: Socket status: 30000006
Feb 27 17:44:13 laptop01 kernel: Yenta IRQ list 0698, PCI irq11
Feb 27 17:44:13 laptop01 kernel: Socket status: 30000010
Feb 27 17:44:14 laptop01 cardmgr[3556]: starting, version is 3.1.31
Feb 27 17:44:14 laptop01 cardmgr[3556]: config error, file './hermes.conf' line 1: no function bindings
Feb 27 17:44:14 laptop01 cardmgr[3556]: watching 2 sockets
Feb 27 17:44:14 laptop01 cardmgr[3556]: Card Services release does not match
Feb 27 17:44:14 laptop01 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Feb 27 17:44:14 laptop01 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
Feb 27 17:44:14 laptop01 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Feb 27 17:44:14 laptop01 kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
Feb 27 17:44:14 laptop01 cardmgr[3556]: socket 1: 3Com AirConnect
Feb 27 17:41:10 laptop01 cardmgr[3181]: executing: 'modprobe hermes'
Feb 27 17:41:10 laptop01 cardmgr[3181]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'
Feb 27 17:41:10 laptop01 cardmgr[3181]: executing: './network start eth1'
Feb 27 17:41:31 laptop01 sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
Feb 27 17:41:31 laptop01 sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
Feb 27 17:41:31 laptop01 sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
Feb 27 17:41:31 laptop01 network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Feb 27 17:41:31 laptop01 network: Bringing up interface lo:  succeeded
Feb 27 17:41:31 laptop01 ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
Feb 27 17:43:31 laptop01 dhcpcd[3355]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response 
Feb 27 17:43:31 laptop01 ifup:  failed.
Feb 27 17:43:31 laptop01 network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed
Feb 27 17:43:31 laptop01 ifup: Determining IP information for eth1...
Feb 27 17:43:31 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 4 (FID=00E4)
Feb 27 17:43:34 laptop01 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Feb 27 17:43:34 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card.


iwconfig eth1
eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"oteAP"  Nickname:"laptop01"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462GHz  Access Point: 00:50:DA:F5:B3:BD
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:0/3  
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=0 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:31/92  Signal level:138/153  Noise level:107/153
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


ifconfig eth1
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:DA:F5:93:1F  
          inet addr:10.0.1.15  Bcast:10.0.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:157 errors:33 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:33837 (33.0 Kb)  TX bytes:29210 (28.5 Kb)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 


/proc/interrupts
           CPU0       
  0:     394654          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       6298          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  3:       1578          XT-PIC  orinoco_cs
  5:          0          XT-PIC  usb-uhci, Allegro
  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
 11:       1742          XT-PIC  Texas Instruments PCI1420, Texas Instruments PCI1420 (#2), eth0
 12:       8871          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 14:      11901          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:          0          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0 
ERR:          0





-- Sarantis