Problems using DWL-650H

[Jan Rychter]

David Gibson on January 8, 2003:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:30:54PM +0100, Jan Rychter wrote:
> > I'm getting errors like:
> > 
> > [...]
> > eth0: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
> > eth0: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
> > eth0: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
> > [...]
> > 
> > which a "cardctl eject; cardctl insert" fixes for a while.
> > 
> > Now, this is a known problem (I've reported it before) -- but I wanted
> > to report some additional data. Perhaps there will be hidden hints
> > there.
> > 
> > I'm still using 0.11b with the double-reset patch:
> > 
> >   orinoco_cs.c 0.11b (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
> >   eth0: Station identity 001f:0002:0002:0001
> >   eth0: Looks like a Symbol firmware version [V2.51-01] (parsing to 25101)
> >   eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> >   eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> >   eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
> >   eth0: MAC address 00:05:5D:D7:3D:BF
> >   eth0: Station name "Prism  I"
> >   eth0: ready
> >   eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x0147
> 
> Ok - I suggest you try using 0.13a (I haven't had time to push it to
> Marcelo yet).  It fixes at least one bug that can result in those
> errors (although I suspect there are multiple problems :-( ).

I have some good news to report -- although 0.13a did not fix the
problem, I've just tried 0.13d and lo and behold! It doesn't crash
anymore. Or at least it hasn't crashed for the past two days. Given that
it had been crashing every couple of minutes before that, I'd call that
impressive.

So, thanks a lot and congratulations! It's amazing how much one learns
to appreciate driver stability that way.

--J.