Re: [airo.c bug] Couldn't allocate RX FID / Max tries exceeded when issueing command

2006-11-02 Thread Ivan Matveich 

On 11/2/06, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

It appears that the driver cannot talk to your card; see the max tries
exceeded when issueing command.  Did this card work previously with a
kernel?  Can narrow down which kernels have problems and which don't?


It spontaneously stopped working about a week after I bought the
laptop and installed Linux. I tried kernel 2.6.12 and it had the same
problem. (Let me know if you'd like me to try a specific version.)

I'm hoping that the card has simply got itself into some kind of
invalid state, and not failed altogether.


It's a bit hard to figure out what firmware you have because the driver
can't talk to the card; can you boot under Windows and determine that
using the Cisco wireless utility?  You also need to flash the card under
Windows, not Linux, ideally to a version of firmware greater than
5.60.08.


I haven't run Windows in many years, so that's problematic. What's the
most straightforward way to boot into a Windows environment sufficient
to run the Cisco wireless utility?


reloading the driver (rmmod airo; modprobe airo) should reset the card.


Yeah, it unfortunately doesn't help. (Nor does rebooting or resetting
the bios.) I noticed a suspiciously relevant commit in the airo.c git
log:

   [wireless airo] reset card in init

   without this patch after an rmmod, modprobe the card won't work anymore
   until the next reboot.

   This patch seem safe to apply for all cards as the bsd driver already do
   that.

   I had to add a timeout because strange things happen (issuecommand will
   fail) if the card is already reseted (after a reboot).

   PS : it seems there are missing reset when leaving monitor mode...

   Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET [EMAIL PROTECTED]

and that makes me wonder if there might be some kind of subtle bug in
the card initialization sequence that manifests itself with my
particular card/firmware.

I think I'll burn a freebsd livecd today and see if their kernel works.
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Re: [airo.c bug] Couldn't allocate RX FID / Max tries exceeded when issueing command

2006-11-02 Thread Ivan Matveich 

On 11/2/06, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Do you know which kernel version that patch first appeared in?


It was committed on 1 Dec 2005, and 2.6.15 was released on 3 Jan 2006.


That would be a great idea, let us know what the results are, especially
if you cna figure out which firmware version you have, or if the card
itself is really just dead.


No luck with freebsd: error resetting card.

I'll try my luck with Cisco's Windows utility---probably
tomorrow---but I'd now wager that my card has simply croaked. (I've
even taken it out and re-seated it in its slot, just in case that
helped.) In any case, thanks for the help.
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[airo.c bug] Couldn't allocate RX FID / Max tries exceeded when issueing command

2006-11-01 Thread Ivan Matveich 

hardware: ibm thinkpad t30
kernel: 2.6.18
problem:

airo(): Probing for PCI adapters
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:02.0[A] - Link [LNKC] - GSI 11 (level,
low) - IRQ 11
airo(eth1): Found an MPI350 card
airo(eth1): Max tries exceeded when issueing command
airo(eth1): Couldn't allocate RX FID
airo(eth1): Could not map memory
airo(): Finished probing for PCI adapters

Any ideas?

1) Firmware upgrade/downgrade? (How?)
2) Command sequence to better reset the card? Documentation?

My complete dmesg log (at loglevel=8) follows. TIA.
Linux version 2.6.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060901 
(prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-13)) #10 PREEMPT Wed Nov 1 21:15:56 EST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820:  - 0009f000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0009f000 - 000a (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 000d2000 - 000d4000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 000dc000 - 0010 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0010 - 0ff6 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0ff6 - 0ff7a000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 0ff7a000 - 0ff7c000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 0ff7c000 - 1000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: ff80 - 0001 (reserved)
255MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65376
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 61280 pages, LIFO batch:15
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP (v002 IBM   ) @ 0x000f7010
ACPI: XSDT (v001 IBMTP-1I0x2010  LTP 0x) @ 0x0ff6f3a8
ACPI: FADT (v001 IBMTP-1I0x2010 IBM  0x0001) @ 0x0ff6f3f4
ACPI: SSDT (v001 IBMTP-1I0x2010 MSFT 0x010d) @ 0x0ff6f4a8
ACPI: ECDT (v001 IBMTP-1I0x2010 IBM  0x0001) @ 0x0ff79f55
ACPI: TCPA (v001 IBMTP-1I0x2010 PTL  0x0001) @ 0x0ff79fa6
ACPI: BOOT (v001 IBMTP-1I0x2010  LTP 0x0001) @ 0x0ff79fd8
ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBMTP-1I0x2010 MSFT 0x010d) @ 0x
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
Allocating PCI resources starting at 2000 (gap: 1000:ef80)
Detected 1794.240 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 65376
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 video=radeonfb:1400x1050 resume=/dev/hda2 
loglevel=8
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 251508k/261504k available (3644k kernel code, 9564k reserved, 2105k 
data, 196k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3590.11 BogoMIPS (lpj=1795059)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febf9ff     
 
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febf9ff     
 
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febf9ff   0080  
 
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz stepping 04
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: Core revision 20060707
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0800)
PM: Adding info for No Bus:platform
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: ACPI Dock Station Driver 
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd8fe, last bus=8
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Found ECDT
ACPI: Could not use ECDT
ACPI Error (evregion-0317): No handler for Region [ECOR] (cff4e72c) 
[EmbeddedControl] [20060707]
ACPI Error (exfldio-0290): Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler [20060707]
ACPI Exception (dswexec-0458): AE_NOT_EXIST, While resolving operands for 
[OpcodeName unavailable] [20060707]
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed 
[\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.FDC_._INI] (Node cff5a888), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI Error (evregion-0317): No handler for Region [ECOR] (cff4e72c) 
[EmbeddedControl] [20060707]
ACPI Error (exfldio-0290): Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler [20060707]
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed 
[\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__._INI] (Node cff56b6c), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
PM: Adding info for acpi:acpi
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10