a lot of earth kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode

Michal Semler cijoml
Sat Feb 15 08:03:17 PST 2003


Dne so 15. ?nor 2003 16:27 jste napsal(a):
> hello
>   I've been using hostap for a few months and it work all the time. except
> the driver have to reset the card sometimes.(seen it in log)

So don't let the driver to reset your card. I removed resetting line from 
code and no errors on unstability I didn't find out:

here is the patch:

diff -urN hostap/driver/modules/hostap.c 
hostap-modified/driver/modules/hostap.c--- hostap/driver/modules/hostap.c     
 Wed Feb 12 17:53:58 2003
+++ hostap-modified/driver/modules/hostap.c     Wed Feb 12 17:40:39 2003
@@ -806,16 +796,9 @@
        local_info_t *local = (local_info_t *) dev->priv;
        struct hfa384x_regs regs;

-       printk(KERN_WARNING "%s Tx timed out! Resetting card\n", dev->name);
-       hostap_netif_stop_queues(dev);
-
        local->func->read_regs(dev, &regs);
-       printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: CMD=%04x EVSTAT=%04x "
-              "OFFSET0=%04x OFFSET1=%04x SWSUPPORT0=%04x\n",
-              dev->name, regs.cmd, regs.evstat, regs.offset0, regs.offset1,
-              regs.swsupport0);

-       local->func->schedule_reset(local);
+/*     local->func->schedule_reset(local);*/
 }
 #endif /* HAVE_TX_TIMEOUT */

Michal




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