wlan0 Interface seems to freeze.

[Aaron Daniels]

The DWL-520 has not skipped a beat since it was installed a week ago.

Thanks,
Aaron Daniels
Chincogan Network Services


On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:30:51 +0200
Theodor Milkov <zimage at del.bg> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:12:59AM +1100, Chincogan Network Services Lists wrote:
> > Hi List,
> > 
> > I have a problem where my wlan0 interface seems to freeze, a dmesg shows pages and pages of this:
> > wlan0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
> > wlan0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
> > 
> > Doing a "iwpriv wlan0 reset 1" does nothing, to fix this I have to restart pcmcia. Sometimes this problem will leave us for a couple of days other times this will happen multiple times a day.
> > 
> > This afternoon I am going to change this card with a Dlink DWL-520 to see if that makes any difference.
> > 
> > My Setup:
> > Hostap 2002-10-12
> > Kernel 2.4.19
> > Pcmcia_cs 3.2.1
> > Compaq WL-200
> > 
> > Once I change the card I will not be using pcmcis_cs anymore as the DWL-520 is a PCI based prism 2.5 chipset.
> > Does anyone have any ideas why this could be happening? I hope it goes away with the new card because it is really starting to get annoying.
> 
> Just to confirm the same problem here. My setup is very similar to
> yours:
> 
> hostap 2002-10-12
> kernel 2.4.18
> pcmcia-cs 3.2.1
> Compaq WL-200 (STA 1.4.9)
> 
> Ricoh PCI-PCMCIA adapter + Senao 2511 (STA 1.4.9) instead of WL-200
> works just fine for weeks. So it must be something with WL-200s.
> 
> Kindest regards,
> 
> -- 
>         Theodor Milkov        Network Administrator
>         Davidov Net           Phone: +359 (2) 730158
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