kernel: eth1: Null event in orinoco_interrupt!

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Fri Jun 28 10:48:08 EST 2002


On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:08:58AM -0700, Jim Carter wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Paul Gresham wrote:
> > Hi, please can someone point me in the right direction. I'm using an
> > Orinoco Silver pcmcia card connecting to an RG1000. My linux server is my
> > gateway to the web and has a pcmcia adaptor in it, which by default loads up
> > as a  yenta socket
> > Jun 27 06:52:35 localhost kernel: eth1: Null event in orinoco_interrupt!
> 
> This is excessive paranoia, attributed to sharing an IRQ between the
> wireless card and something else, so when the something else interrupts,
> the wireless card has nothing to say to the driver.  This check was removed
> several driver versions ago.

Indeed.  I put it in due to a brain fart when trying to track down
another possible problem.

> The latest driver version is 0.12 and it can be obtained from
> 
> http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/

Yes, but I don't suggest you use it just for now.  Go with 0.11b until
I release 0.12a which should fix numerous problems with 0.12.

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