I've seen this on my older Wavelan card, but not my more recent PRISM card. If I run with WITNESS compiled in, I don't see it, which suggests a timing issue. This came up at USENIX a couple of times and I know Scott and Warner were discussing potential sources and fixes; Scott noticed there were a lot of card resets in the new code not present previously, so one theory was that we needed a delay for a bit to settle during the reset. I've CC'd Warner and Scott to bug them. :-) Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert_at_fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, BSDVault wrote: > A head up about the wi driver in FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. I have a netgear > MA-311 card that supports HostAP mode. The issue is that I get a busy bit > error. The exact error starts with the following.. THIS ONLY OCCURS WHEN > WEP IS ENABLED: > > wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc00/0; last status 800b > > We then move on to : > > wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear. > > This seems to cycle until the next error: > > wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC > wi0: tx buffer allocation failed > wi0: mgmt. Buffer allocation failed > > Then back through the entire error sequence again. Eventually the box will > freeze as these errors cycle and then free up again when it starts back at > the timeout error. I was hopeful that the new wi driver in 5.1 would > address this problem as I know several persons with Prism chipsets that have > this very same issue on 5.0 and 5.1. > > Please respond directly as I am not on -current mailing list. > > Thanks > > Ray > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Sat Jun 21 2003 - 06:42:37 UTC
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