From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 Description of problem: In late kernel versions (2.6.4-1.305 probably all the way back to 2.6.3) the orinoco wireless module appears to have become unstable. There are several symptoms: - most common is that it will flood syslog with "kernel: eth0: Information frame lost." messages, so that the laptop (toshiba Satellite Pro 4300) will be rendered practically unresponsive. Manually pulling the card (Netgear MA401) typically lets the computer recover. (see debug output below) - total computer freezes to where the bios won't even respond to the backlight switch (I guess this is due to the PCMCIA/wireless sytem) - temporary losses of association ( I have no other debug info on this ) This wireless card used with the orinoco driver has in the past been rock solid. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.4-1.305 (and a few earlier) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. High network traffic especially across a mounted nfs file system Additional info: Apr 4 20:34:07 localhost kernel: eth0: Information frame lost. Apr 4 20:34:27 localhost last message repeated 1606 times Apr 4 20:34:27 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. Apr 4 20:34:27 localhost kernel: eth0: Information frame lost. Apr 4 20:34:57 localhost last message repeated 4738 times Apr 4 20:35:16 localhost last message repeated 2911 times Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: hermes @ IO 0x100: Timeout waiting for command completion. Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: eth0: Error -110 transmitting packet Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: hermes @ IO 0x100: Timeout waiting for command completion. Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: eth0: Error -110 transmitting packet Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: hermes @ IO 0x100: Error -16 issuing command. Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: eth0: Error -16 transmitting packet Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: hermes @ IO 0x100: Error -16 issuing command. Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: eth0: Error -16 transmitting packet Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: hermes @ IO 0x100: Error -16 issuing command. Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: eth0: Error -16 transmitting packet Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: hermes @ IO 0x100: Error -16 issuing command. Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: eth0: Error -16 transmitting packet Apr 4 20:35:17 localhost kernel: hermes @ IO 0x100: Error -16 issuing command.
I have the same problems, making wireless use of my notebook almost impossible. I'm using an ASUS WL-100 card on a Toshiba 7020CT, with Fedora Core 2 (+updates) and kernel 2.6.8-1.521.