3Com AirConnect Tx timeout

[Sarantis Paskalis]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:00:31AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > 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).
> > 
> > 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
> 
> 	I would recommend to try orinoco 8b (or maybe 9a).

Thanks for the tip!  Both versions behave much better than 0.07 (the RedHat
default for kernel-2.4.9-21) or 0.09b (again the RedHat default for their
rawhide 2.4.9.17-0.18) or 0.10.  Version 0.08b is the better performing 
one.  Some minor remarks follow.

The drivers still make those buzzing sounds, and 0.09a also produces these
messages:

Feb 28 13:32:18 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=00E4)!
Feb 28 13:32:22 laptop01 kernel: Multicast list is longer than mc_count
Feb 28 13:33:12 laptop01 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Feb 28 13:33:12 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card.
Feb 28 13:33:12 laptop01 kernel: Multicast list is longer than mc_count
Feb 28 13:33:12 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=00E4)!
Feb 28 13:33:12 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=0101)!
Feb 28 13:33:12 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=010F)!
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card.
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: Multicast list is longer than mc_count
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=00E4)!
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=0101)!
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=010F)!
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=011D)!
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=012B)!
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=0139)!
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=0147)!
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=0155)!
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=0163)!
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=0171)!
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=017F)!
Feb 28 13:33:30 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx error (FID=018D)!

0.08b produces only the following for big files down- and upload:
Feb 28 13:52:22 laptop01 kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Feb 28 13:57:19 laptop01 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Feb 28 13:57:19 laptop01 kernel: eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card.


If there is anything else I should do, please let me know.

Thanks again.

-- Sarantis