orinoco_cs under load

John M Flinchbaugh (glynis@butterfly.hjsoft.com)
Mon, 07 Apr 2003 02:53:32 -0400

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when my hawking tech 802.11b card gets heavily loaded (tar | bzip2 >
nfs_file) i see these errors repeated at a very high rate:

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Apr  7 02:41:01 density kernel: eth0: Information frame lost.
Apr  7 02:41:01 density kernel: eth0: Information frame lost.
Apr  7 02:41:01 density kernel: eth0: Information frame lost.
Apr  7 02:41:01 density kernel: eth0: Information frame lost.
Apr  7 02:41:01 density kernel: eth0: Information frame lost.
Apr  7 02:41:01 density kernel: eth0: Information frame lost.
Apr  7 02:41:01 density kernel: eth0: Information frame lost.
Apr  7 02:41:01 density kernel: eth0: Information frame lost.
Apr  7 02:41:01 density kernel: eth0: Information frame lost.

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then it eventually, in this case after 40 minutes, turns to repeating
this at a slower rate:

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Apr  7 02:41:03 density kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed
out
Apr  7 02:41:03 density kernel: eth0: Tx timeout! ALLOCFID=3D0123,
TXCOMPLFID=3D0179, EVSTAT=3Da00a
Apr  7 02:41:03 density kernel: eth0: orinoco_reset()
Apr  7 02:41:04 density kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed
out
Apr  7 02:41:04 density kernel: eth0: Tx timeout! ALLOCFID=3D0000,
TXCOMPLFID=3D0000, EVSTAT=3D0000
Apr  7 02:41:05 density kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed
out
Apr  7 02:41:05 density kernel: eth0: Tx timeout! ALLOCFID=3D0000,
TXCOMPLFID=3D0000, EVSTAT=3D0000
Apr  7 02:41:06 density kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed
out
Apr  7 02:41:06 density kernel: eth0: Tx timeout! ALLOCFID=3D0000,
TXCOMPLFID=3D0000, EVSTAT=3D0000

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once this is scrolling, the keyboard ceases to respond.  the mouse
works in x, and i can close things, but i can't type or switch vt's.
alt-sysrq does work though.


i've probably been seeing this behavior since the 2.5.5x kernels, but=20
that's probably when i got the wireless card.


this report is from the 2.5.66 kernel, but it looks the same as
earlier kernels.  i'm using the orinoco_cs module on debian unstable
on my dell inspiron 3800.


i have not been able to reproduce the error with processes other than
my tar | bzip2 > (nfs-mounted-file).


thanks.
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