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From: Nigel Jones (jonesnhursley.ibm.com)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 03:21:26 CST

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    Hi,
     I'm using the orinoco driver 0.9a under RH 7.2 with pcmcia-cs-3.1.29,
    kernel 2.4.12 & a D-Link DWL-650 pccard at 8c3 firmware level (prism 2
    chipset).

    Configuration is using 802.11b ad-hoc with 128bit WEP.

    Only 2 machines in net. Peer runs latest intersil w2k drivers for the same
    card (from SMC at the time)

    In my linux messages log I get errors like:

    Jan 11 07:59:39 localhost kernel: eth0: Tx error (FID=041A)!
    Jan 11 07:59:50 localhost kernel: eth0: Tx error (FID=05F1)!
    Jan 11 07:59:50 localhost kernel: eth0: Tx error (FID=0207)!
    Jan 11 07:59:55 localhost kernel: eth0: Tx error (FID=0536)!
    ...
    Jan 11 08:06:24 localhost kernel: eth0: Tx error (FID=01B1)!
    Jan 11 08:06:25 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
    Jan 11 08:06:25 localhost kernel: eth0: Tx timeout! Resetting card.
    Jan 11 08:06:25 localhost kernel: About to write key 0, keylen=13
    Jan 11 08:06:25 localhost kernel: About to write key 1, keylen=13
    Jan 11 08:06:25 localhost kernel: About to write key 2, keylen=13
    Jan 11 08:06:25 localhost kernel: About to write key 3, keylen=13
    Jan 11 08:06:25 localhost kernel: eth0: Error -110 writing packet header to
    BAP
    Jan 11 08:06:25 localhost last message repeated 3 times
    Jan 11 08:06:25 localhost kernel: eth0: Tx error (FID=010F)!
    Jan 11 08:06:25 localhost kernel: eth0: Tx error (FID=0136)!
    ....
    Jan 11 08:06:44 localhost kernel: eth0: Tx error (FID=0186)!
    Jan 11 08:06:45 localhost kernel: eth0: Tx error (FID=01F3)!
    Jan 11 08:06:46 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
    Jan 11 08:06:46 localhost kernel: eth0: Tx timeout! Resetting card.
    Jan 11 08:06:46 localhost kernel: About to write key 0, keylen=13
    Jan 11 08:06:46 localhost kernel: About to write key 1, keylen=13
    Jan 11 08:06:46 localhost kernel: About to write key 2, keylen=13

    and this pretty much continues.the Tx errors occuring every few seconds

    The card isn't always reset
    I *think* this may have started when I enabled 128 bit WEP. I'll have to
    disable to see.
    -- Just did this. No difference!

    Here's my config:
    eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"????" Nickname:"???"
              Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.452GHz Cell: 52:CA:65:??:??:??
    Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
              Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
              Encryption key:????-????-????-????-????-????-?? Encryption
    mode:rest
    ricted
              Power Management:off
              Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
              Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:1933 invalid misc:0

    ??? are my entries

    The invalid crypt remains fairly constant - much of the churn was when I was
    fiddling with the config

    On WIndows I have
    adhoc demo: off
    authentication algorithm: open system
    Channel: 9
    driver ibss: enabled
    driver polling: disabled
    fragmentation: 2432
    listen interval: 3
    network: 802.11b adhoc
    powersave: disabled
    preamble: auto
    rts: 2432
    ssid: ???
    transmit: auto
    wep: 128 bit
    wep passphrase any (don't think this is used - I've entered my own key!)

    Thanks,

    --
    Nigel Jones
    jonesnhursley.ibm.com