On Thursday, 3 July 2003 at 16:33:30 +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: > 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
Hmm. I'd look on that as a workaround, not a fix. The driver shouldn't become more sensitive towards microcode revisions. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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