Tx timed out! Resetting card (with OpenAP)

Wed Jan 8 02:44:13 PST 2003

Hi,

It seems from the Messages you pasted that you're using the builtin kernel
pcmcia, and not the external package.
Have you tried using the external package seperately and disabling the
kernel drivers?
I've had endless hassles with the kernel pcmcia and most of them went away
when I switched to the pcmcia-cs package.

-Robert.

----- Original Message -----
From: "earl" <earl at stanfordalumni.org>
To: <hostap at shmoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:13 PM
Subject: Tx timed out! Resetting card (with OpenAP)

> Hi,
>
> I'm doing some development with the OpenAP (Eumitcom WL-11000) hardware:
>
> http://tools.collegeterrace.net/openap-ct
> This is basically a AMD Elan SC400 (486 class system-on-a-chip) with a
> Prism2-based card plugged into the PCMCIA.
>
> Currently i'm using CVS hostap (as of Jan 3), pcmcia 3.2.3, and kernel
> 2.4.20.
>
> I have two of these units set up with bridging between their wireless
> and ethernet interfaces, with a WDS link between the two units.
> (wds_type=2)  I am testing the WDS link by transferring data from a PC
> connected to the ethernet interface of one unit to a PC connected to the
> interface of the other.  Generally, it works for a while but eventually
> one unit will die with the message:
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: wlan0: transmit timed out
> wlan0 Tx timed out! Resetting card
> wlan0: CMD=010b EVSTAT=8099 OFFSET0=0000 OFFSET1=0000 SWSUPPORT0=8a32
> which repeats forever.  It's easy to reproduce this by ping-flooding,
> which will trigger this failure within a minute or two at the most.
> Transferring large files also causes this to kick in reliably after a
> few mintues.
>
> The failure behavior is slightly different if i use use standard WDS by
> first using prism2_srec to do a nonvolatile update of the firmware then
> use wds_type=4.  In this case when it fails i get the message:
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: wlan0: transmit timed out
> wlan0 Tx timed out! Resetting card
> wlan0: CMD=010b EVSTAT=0019 OFFSET0=0000 OFFSET1=0000 SWSUPPORT0=8a32
> which is only printed out once.  After that, the link is completely dead
> so apparently the card reset failed to make things work again.
>
> I did verify that, before the failure occurs and while data is still
> flowing normally, the interrupt count in /proc/interrupts is
> incrementing for hostap_cs.  Does this indicate that this isn't
> something that would be fixed with an irq_mode setting?
>
> Just for fun i tried changing the value of TX_TIMEOUT in hostap.c from 2
> * HZ to 200 * HZ to see whether the timeout was in fact a brief glitch
> that could be safely ignored, i.e. an empirical timing parameter that is
> being set too strictly.  In this case no timeout was reported but the
> link would die anyway, which i assume means things were broken already
> regardless of whether the card reset is attempted.  That is, the fact
> that prism2_tx_timeout() is getting called is a symptom of a bug that's
> already occurred.  The fact that the reset fails to put things right may
> or may not be related to the bug that already occurred.
>
> Any ideas what's happening?  Can i put in more printk's to give some
> better tracing info?
>
> Here are some possibly relevant startup messages (for the first case):
>
> Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
>   options:  none
> Intel PCIC probe:
>   Intel i82365sl A step ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, 1 socket
>     host opts [0]: none
>     ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,15 polling interval = 1000
> ms
> Starting wireless: cardmgr[23]: watcs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff:ching
> 1 socke
>  clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: clean.
> Jan  1 00:00:06 cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff:cardmgr[24]:
> starting, version i clean.
> s 3.2.3
> Jan  1 00:00:06 cardmgr[24]: socket 0: Longshine LCR-8531 11Mbps WLAN
> PCMCIA CARD
> Jan  1 00:00:06 cardmgr[24]: executing: 'insmod
> /lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia/ho
> stap_crypt.o'
> Jan  1 00:00:07 cardmgr[24]: + Using
> /lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia/hostap_crypt.o
> Jan  1 00:00:07 cardmgr[24]: executing: 'insmod
> /lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia/hostap.o'
> Jan  1 00:00:08 cardmgr[24]: + Using
> /lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia/hostap.o
> Jan  1 00:00:08 cardmgr[24]: executing: 'insmod
> /lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia/hostap_cs.o ignore_cis_vcc=1'
> hostap_cs: 0.0.0 CVS (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
> Jan  1 00:00:08 cardmgr[24]: + Using
> /lib/modules/preferred/pcmchostap_cs: index
> , irq 3Vcc 5.0ia/hostap_cs.o
>        , io 0x0100-0x013f
> hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wlan0
> wlan0: NIC: id=0x8002 v1.0.0
> wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
> wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v0.7.5
> Jan  1 00:00:09 cardmgr[24]: executing: './network start wlan0'
> Jan  1 00:00:10 cardmgr[24]: + wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> 00:90:D1:00:C4:88
> Jan  1 00:00:10 cardmgr[24]: +           BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500
> Metric:1
> Jan  1 00:00:10 cardmgr[24]: +           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:0
> Jan  1 00:00:10 cardmgr[24]: +           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 carrier:0
> Jan  1 00:00:10 cardmgr[24]: +           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Jan  1 00:00:10 cardmgr[24]: +           RX bytes:0 (0.0 iB)  TX bytes:0
> (0.0 iB)
> Jan  1 00:00:10 cardmgr[24]: +           Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
>
> thanks
> earl
>
>
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