texas1emt
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Joined: 27 Oct 2003
Posts: 352
Location: San Antonio, TX
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 Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 4:44 am Post subject: Hostap - NETDEV WATCHDOG transmit timed out |
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Howdy, and thanks for reading my post!
I recently got hostap running GREAT on a 3Com 802.11b PCI card with a Prism chipset:
| Code: | 0000:04:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 0001
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64, cache line size 10
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at df900000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- |
It serves out to windows clients without a problem. However, when linux clients start generating heavy network usage (bittorrent, limewire, etc.), all the networks on the computer lock down. When I mean lock down, NONE of my network interfaces respond to ANYTHING of any sort. You can't get them running again with /etc/init.d/net.ethX restart - I have to reboot. This is the message I get in /var/log/messages/everything:
| Code: | Feb 23 21:57:31 [kernel] NETDEV WATCHDOG: wifi0: transmit timed out
- Last output repeated twice - |
I am using the 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 kernel. My current network setup has eth0 connected to the internet, with eth1 serving ethernet clients internally, and wlan0/wifi0 serving wireless clients internally.
Am I trying to shove too much data through this card? I saw some other posts talking about similar errors with ethernet cards. People blamed those problems on poor drivers and not the hardware itself.
If anyone has any input, please let me know.
EDIT: I am running iptables without portsentry. When the networks lock down, the route tables are still perfect.
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M. Hayden - San Antonio, TX |
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