Re: airport reset on iBook2

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:39:02AM -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote:

I don't know if this is a known problem (I haven't seen it mentioned)
or not, but I'm getting the following error from my Airport card
reasonably often:

Jul 25 09:27:50 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Jul 25 09:27:50 localhost kernel: eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card.

I can confirm that happen from time to time with my Sony VAIO picturebook
C1XD and a Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE board.

unloading the whole pcmcia subsystem (incl. yenta_socket) and re-loading
everything helps.

(kernel 2.4.7)

I am sending this to linuxppc-dev and netdev, as I don't know whether
this is airport-specific, or orinoco/hermes related.

well, my platform is non-ppc, and non-airport, so this seems to be a hint
of it being a generic problem.

Ethan

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I can confirm that happen from time to time with my Sony VAIO picturebook
C1XD and a Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE board.

unloading the whole pcmcia subsystem (incl. yenta_socket) and re-loading
everything helps.

What is your card's firmware version ? (displayed by the driver during
boot). You may want to go to MacOS, upgrade to Apple's latest airport
software, and back to linux. This will upgrade your card's firmware to
the latest version provided by Apple, which might help.

Ben.


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