#1017: "rx FIFO overrun" prevents traffic from flowing
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone:
Component: madwifi: driver | Version: trunk
Resolution: | Keywords:
Patch_attached: 0 |
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Comment (by anonymous):
Replying to [comment:114 Porch]:
> And I thought OSS had a faster rate of fixing bugs then CSS. It's almost
been a year and this bug is still not fixed.
OSS can only fix things if the specifications are available. Sadly is not
the case with Atheros. A special license agreement is required; this is
not available to everyone.
We can see that we have a hardware problem (SERR is signaled). According
to bug 1499 this does not appear with the ndiswrapper driver, which says
that it's not a silicon but a driver bug.
Linux currently doesn't handle these hardware errors (except on chipsets
that do support Advanced Error Reporting, AER). There's nothing the
madwifi driver can do about it, and I don't even know if it is possible to
get the chip out of the state. Without access to the specs it's not
possible for the madwifi developers to ask the chip what is wrong, and
configure it in a way that the error does not occur.
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Ticket URL: <http://madwifi.org/ticket/1017#comment:115>
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