Re: Problem with wi in CURRENT (and 5.1)

Hi,

this is exactly the problem I have with my wi-driven card aswell. I have
a pretty standard Lucent card (Orinoco Silver, 64bit), PCMCIA, in my
ThinkPad T21 (see another thread specifically about that machine and its
issues with 5.1). It will work for a while, then start spitting out
error messages like

wi0: bad alloc 55c != 2a2, cur 0 nxt 0
wi0: device timeout
wi0: bad alloc 573 != 2a2, cur 0 nxt 0
wi0: device timeout

and

wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc02/0
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc03/0

and ofcourse the messages you describe. Pulling the card out and
re-inserting it, then ifconfig, brings it back to life for a few minutes
or as much as half an hour or so. 
At first I thought it was a signal level problem, but it's not. I also
thought it's an encryption problem, but that's not it either. So I'm
really confused - it worked perfectly for weeks on end with 4.8, and now
in 5.1/CURRENT it screws me over like this.
Firmware is at the latest level.

Just my two cents to confirm your story ;)

/Eirik

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:26:11 -0700
"David O'Brien" <freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:48:13AM +0100, Robert Hulme wrote:
> > I'm having some problems with wi in 5-CURRENT and 5.1 in general.
> > I'm using a Proxim Skyline 802.11b PC Card (which I believe uses the
> > Prism 2 chipset). The PC Card is using the 0.3.0 primary and 0.8.3
> > secondary firmware (which I believe is the latest). I have a Dell
> > Inspiron 8200. 
> > 
> > The card works fine in Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.0, but in 5.1 if I
> > use ifconfig to bring up the card (for example during boot) it locks
> > my laptop up for about a minute while I get loads of error messages
> > appear on screen. Eventually I get a 'init failed' and 'tx buffer
> > allocation failed (error 12)' error, and although ifconfig says the
> > interface is up it doesn't actually work.
> 
> See if there isn't updated firmware for your card.  Rumor has it the
> MS-Windows driver uploads the latest firmware version into the RAM on
> the card.
> 
> For Lucent cards you want any versoin 8 firmware from
> http://www.expressresponse.com/cgi-bin/proxim02/showFaq.cgi?session_id=1055265419.6837.7&type=&product=Client_Product
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