SMC 2632 (PLX) Ad-hoc mode fails (part-time success)

[Thomas Leineweber]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 01:34:47AM +1000, Jason Hecker wrote:
> I am having the exact sam troubles with a PLX card as you with a Roamabout 
> Orinoco compatible device.
> 
> I get:
> 
> eth2      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"SPAM"  Nickname:"HERMES I"
>           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.422GHz  Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Bit Rate:2Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
>           Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Encryption key:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> It doesn't look like the card is behaving... nothing received or 
> transmitted.  I am using v.11a of the linux driver.
>

I had no the time to do another test with the driver version 0.12.
We got it working. But: If we do a warm reboot, sometimes the
card/driver is not behaving as in the example above. It has a value
of 00:00:00:00:00:00 for the cell and it cannot be convinced to
get into the right state until a complete power-off of the computer.
In this case, we have "Error -110 setting multicast list." in the
kernel-log.

Cheers,
Thomas


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