Re: Internal airport card not working? (2.4.6-benh)

Jeremy Radlow spake unto us the following wisdom:

Under 2.4.6 on an iBook, I'm apparently having ARP problems with Airport...

When I try to ping other machines on the network, I can see the activity
lights on my base station and the target machines' ethernet ports, and the
other machines on my LAN see the airport card in their ARP cache, but the
laptop with the airport card doesn't get anything in its ARP cache.

When I snoop the traffic using tcpdump, all I see is a bunch of spurious ARP
who-has messages originating from the laptop, and is-at messages originating
from the target machines.

I'm running BenH's 2.4.6 from about a week ago, and I get similar
behavior...  *eventually* I find the destination and connect or
whatever, but it takes quite a few seconds.

Removing the driver stack (airport, orinoco, hermes) and reinserting
the modules fixes the problem for me...  Until I suspend and resume a
few times, at which point I'll have to remove/reinsert again.

I know that's not a *fix*, but it should get you working again in the
meantime.  :-)
Ethan

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I'm running BenH's 2.4.6 from about a week ago, and I get similar
behavior...  *eventually* I find the destination and connect or
whatever, but it takes quite a few seconds.

Removing the driver stack (airport, orinoco, hermes) and reinserting
the modules fixes the problem for me...  Until I suspend and resume a
few times, at which point I'll have to remove/reinsert again.

I know that's not a *fix*, but it should get you working again in the
meantime.  :-)
Ethan

Interesting. Do you see any error message in the dmesh log ?

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