After several days of operation of Netgear MA311 card, the card becomes to seek improperly and needs reset. This patch tries to reset the card when this situation occurs.
Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 (etc.) A more detailed description of the problem can be found at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154773 The same problem with different card is reported at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14597046 Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c @@ -562,6 +562,8 @@ static int orinoco_xmit(struct sk_buff * printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error %d writing packet to BAP\n", dev->name, err); stats->tx_errors++; + if (err == -EIO) + schedule_work(&priv->reset_work); goto fail; } -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
