Hard lock-up

[Mike Saywell]

Nay on both accounts. :-/

Mike

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 09:29:54PM +1000, James Harper wrote:
> Smp? Interrupt sharing?
> 
> james
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: hostap-admin at shmoo.com [mailto:hostap-admin at shmoo.com] 
> > On Behalf Of Mike Saywell
> > Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2003 10:28
> > To: hostap at shmoo.com
> > Subject: Hard lock-up
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've got a hostap box which will just lock solid from time to 
> > time. Transferring lots of data is generally a sure fire way 
> > to kill it off
> >  - copying an iso generally does the trick.
> > 
> > The only thing I can see in the logs before the lockup is:
> > 
> > Apr 17 00:40:56 beastie wlan0: STA 00:02:2d:53:62:e5 TX rate 
> > lowered to 55 Apr 17 00:40:57 beastie wlan0: STA 
> > 00:02:2d:53:62:e5 TX rate raised to 110 Apr 17 00:41:03 
> > beastie wlan0: STA 00:02:2d:53:62:e5 TX rate lowered to 55 
> > Apr 17 00:41:03 beastie wlan0: STA 00:02:2d:53:62:e5 TX rate 
> > raised to 110 Apr 17 00:41:06 beastie wlan0: STA 
> > 00:02:2d:53:62:e5 TX rate lowered to 55 Apr 17 00:41:07 
> > beastie wlan0: STA 00:02:2d:53:62:e5 TX rate raised to 110
> > 
> > The client reports the signal strength as about -55db so I'm 
> > not sure why it's switching rate like this?
> > 
> > This has only happened since upgrading the AP cards firmware 
> > to 1.5.6, however I think I moved from the old 2002 stable 
> > driver to a CVS one at the same time so it could also be 
> > this.  It seems as though other people have reported problems 
> > with the new driver but not the old one. I'll try an older 
> > version of the driver when I get a chance.
> > 
> > I'm currently running 0.0.1 (which suffers from the problem).
> > 
> > Is there anything I could do to help debug this some more?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Mike Saywell
> > 
> > PS - with regards to the autoamtic wds link issue I was 
> > having it seems I was in error.  I guess I must have manually 
> > removed deleted the wds link or something, regardless the 
> > auto-linking seems to be working fine now. :) 
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