On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: MWL>In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MWL> Harti Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MWL>: I think the same problem was reported by Rob Holmes two weeks ago and by MWL>: me (although with lesser detail) yesterday. I converted my kernel from MWL>: OLDBUS to NEWBUS and now one out of four or five tries the card works, but MWL>: this is really annoying. I have an Inspiron 8200 and an Avaya (that is a MWL>: Lucent) card. I have found no solution until now. MWL> MWL>The lucent problem is well known and has been known for a long time. MWL>It was broken between 5.0 and 5.1 for some people with lucent cards MWL>(not me and mine). Enabling WITNESS seens to help, but that likely MWL>means that it is a race that the overhead of WITNESS tickles in MWL>certain ways. Sam indicated he'd try to find some time to fix it. MWL>There's something subtle going on with the lucent cards, and I've MWL>given up trying to find it. I just do't have the time.
Updating the firmware from www.agere.com to 8.72.1 has cured the problem (except for two messages from the kernel): Jul 3 16:09:05 harti kernel: wi0: bad alloc 204 != 201, cur 0 nxt 0 Jul 3 16:09:09 harti kernel: wi0: bad alloc 208 != 205, cur 0 nxt 0 harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
