I've completed the firmware upgrade, finally. But when starting the
network during boot I get errors. I'm not sure if I should worry about
this yet. I've not tested to see if I can duplicate the previous error.
$ cat /var/run/dmesg.boot |grep wi0
wi0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "Intersil PRISM2.5" rev 0x01: irq 11
wi0: PRISM2.5 ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) (0x8013), Firmware 1.1.1 (primary),
1.8.4 (station), address 00:09:5b:11:cc:4e
wi0: init failed
wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC
wi0: tx buffer allocation failed
wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC
wi0: mgmt. buffer allocation failed
wi0: wi_start: xmit failed
The first 5 wi0: lines occur when the network is started. The 6th line
occurs when httpd is started.
Jason Murray wrote:
$ cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep wi0
wi0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "Intersil PRISM2.5" rev 0x01: irq 11
wi0: PRISM2.5 ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) (0x8013), Firmware 1.0.7 (primary),
1.3.6 (station), address 00:09:5b:11:cc:4e
I'm going to try a firmware upgrade ASAP. I found some references to
using a the Linux bootable distro to use the hostap toolset
(prism2_srec). Is this still the best way of doing it, short of moving
the card to a windows box? If the problem is still there I'll re-plead
for help.
Chris Keuthe suggested a kernel upgrade. I'm running 3.9 release, with
raidframe and autoconfig option. Is the patch you submitted later than
that.
Melameth, Daniel D. wrote:
Melameth, Daniel D. wrote:
Jason Murray wrote:
Hello. I've been having a problem for the last year or so. This
problem has occurred in 3.6 - 3.9.
Let me try to explain it.
I have a server with a wireless (802.11b) card in it and I have a
laptop that is using that server as its gateway. Whenever the
traffic over the wireless network increases (usually during an
iTunes/iPod update/sync) I get the following types of messages:
May 16 17:09:03 disillusion /bsd: wi0: wi_start: xmit failed May 16
17:09:18 disillusion /bsd: wi0: wi_mgmt_xmit: xmit failed
And then the wireless network disappears.
Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening? Or any
suggestions on how I can get more information about what is going
on?
You might want to try updating the firmware of the wi card--the
output of 'cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep ral0' might help.
I meant the output of 'cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep wi0' might help.
