network card dies and dmesg is full of line after line of: eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP lspci -vv 01:02.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01) Subsystem: Intel Corp. Wireless 802.11b MiniPCI Adapter Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
This occurs with regularity with recent kernels including kernel-2.4.20-2.36 kernel-2.4.20-2.39 kernel-2.4.20-2.41 all for i686. This bug makes working very painful as I have to run the following command regularly: ifdown eth1; rmmod orinoco_pci orinoco hermes; ifup eth1
OK, I found a fix for this. Upgrading to 0.13b drivers from http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/ fixes it. I haven't seen any lockups since then, and the README suggests that 0.13 fixes at least on known reason for the lockup.
I'm also seeing this problem on my IBM Thinkpad T30 which has the same wireless chipset and uses the same driver. The problem occurs under Red Hat Linux 8.0 as well as Phoebe 8.0.94 (kernel-2.4.20-2.48)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80942 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.