Gemtek WL350F Prism 2.5 on ADI Coyote IXP425 Part 2

Prashant Alves palves
Fri Oct 3 07:09:56 PDT 2003


Hello Again,

I've split my message into 2 emails to try to keep it more manageable. For a 
quick recap this is a Gemtek WL350F Prism 2.5 mini PCI card on a ADI coyote 
IXP425 based board.

After apparently succesfull insmoding hostap_pci.o when I try to connect from 
a windows based client, the log messages shows up the following:

#ifconfig wlan0 up

wlan0: prism2_open  

These are messages when I try to connect from the client, needless to say the 
connection doesn't suceed

wlan0: 00:20:e0:39:9c:06 auth_cb - frame was not ACKed
wlan0: 00:20:e0:39:9c:06 auth_cb - frame was not ACKed
wlan0: 00:20:e0:39:9c:06 auth_cb - frame was not ACKed

Sometimes after trying to connect for a while the client can connect, however 
pings are horrible and are a few seconds and the connection is not very 
stable.

The card also seems to randomly reset and reports a lot more errors as shown 
below:

NETDEV WATCHDOG: wlan0: transmit timed out
wlan0 Tx timed out! Resetting card
wlan0: CMD=010b EVSTAT=801c OFFSET0=0000 OFFSET1=0000 SWSUPPORT0=8a32
wlan0: scheduled card reset
hostap_pci: wlan0: resetting card
wlan0: removed pending cmd_queue entry (type=1, cmd=0x010b, param0=0x0166)
prism2_hw_init()
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 200 ms
wlan0: trying to read PDA from 0x007f0000: OK
NETDEV WATCHDOG: wlan0: transmit timed out
wlan0 Tx timed out! Resetting card
wlan0: CMD=0121 EVSTAT=8010 OFFSET0=0000 OFFSET1=0000 SWSUPPORT0=8a32
NETDEV WATCHDOG: wlan0: transmit timed out
wlan0 Tx timed out! Resetting card
wlan0: CMD=0121 EVSTAT=8010 OFFSET0=0000 OFFSET1=0000 SWSUPPORT0=8a32
wlan0: scheduled card reset
hostap_pci: wlan0: resetting card
prism2_hw_init()
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 200 ms
wlan0: trying to read PDA from 0x007f0000: OK
wlan0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c1b8e8e0, type=0, res=0)
wlan0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1b8e8e0, type=0, 
cmd=0x0001, param0=0x0000, EVSTAT=0010 INTEN=0010)
wlan0: interrupt delivery does not seem to work
wlan0: MAC port 0 enabling failed
wlan0: Command completion event, but no pending commands

Any pointers for debugging the problem would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Prashant






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