On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 16:25, Jean-Paul Smets wrote: > > Apparently, the PRISMII cards are working rather well with the Mandrake > > 2.4.19mdk kernel. There are still some issues I think however. The main > > problemen I had with orinoco dirvers on PRISM II cards is that the driver > > has the be rebooted (/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart) after some heavy file > > transfers (typ. 100MB). This does not happen with wlan-ng drivers. > > > > Maybe the current kernel is OK for client systems (but it is not OK for > > servers which act as Access Point). > > > > JPS. > > After some tests of PRISM II and Mandrake kernel, here is the conclusion : > it is not reliable. After 50/100MB of information is sent through the card, > the kernel says: > > Aug 13 17:43:54 localhost kernel: eth1: error -110 reading Rx descriptor. > Frame > dropped. > Aug 13 17:43:54 localhost kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing packet to BAP > Aug 13 17:43:54 localhost kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to > BAP > Aug 13 17:44:25 localhost last message repeated 18505 times > Aug 13 17:45:26 localhost last message repeated 38057 times > Aug 13 17:45:57 localhost last message repeated 20736 times > Aug 13 17:45:57 localhost dhcpcd[3645]: terminating on signal 15 > Aug 13 17:46:00 localhost kernel: descriptor to BAP > Aug 13 17:46:00 localhost kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to > BAP > Aug 13 17:46:01 localhost last message repeated 335 times > Aug 13 17:46:01 localhost kernel: eth1: Error -110 setting multicast list. > > With linux-wlan-ng, such thing does not happen. That'why I think the > inclusion of linux-wlan-ng would be good.
Out of interest - did you try with a newly downloaded copy of the orinoco drivers from the author's website as well as the version included in the -mdk kernels? I've always had problems with the orinoco versions built into the mdk kernel, but recompiling v0.12 myself has always worked fine. -- adamw
