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From: David Gibson (david_at_gibson.dropbear.id.au)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 19:37:49 CDT

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    On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:24:20AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
    > Hi, Johnny!
    >
    > > > I tried "testing" driver and it works after many times of restarting
    > > > the card using cardctl......it looked like it receives erroneous
    > > > packets occasionally.
    >
    > D-Link DWL-650H sometimes loses interrupts informing the driver that the
    > buffer has been allocated. In 4 in 5 cases it loses the interrupt for the
    > third packet being sent. In the remaining 1 in 5 cases it works fine.
    > The orinoco driver is very sensitive to this problem - it won't send more
    > data until the interrupt arrives.

    Ah, so *that*'s the problem we're having with the DWL-650H. How odd.
    Are we just losing the interrupt, or are we losing the event entirely
    (i.e. is the allocation bit set in EVSTAT). 

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