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Re: Tx timeouts: msg#00057

Subject: Re: Tx timeouts
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 danny-ajv+KCCKUOlAfugRpC6u6w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > I've been using orinoco 0.14alpha2HEAD for a while on my ibook airport
> > (firmware Lucent/Agere version 8.70) and with the 0.14 series I get lots
> > of Tx errors:
> > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> > eth1: Tx timeout! ALLOCFID=ffff, TXCOMPLFID=ffff, EVSTAT=8000
> > eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
> 
> It's fixed in 0.15rc1.
> 
> > Looking at the source and changelog I reverted the patch that moves
> > netif_wake_queue() to the Tx completion (patch attached). This was
> > apperently done in 0.14 to fix the -110 errors on some firmwares. But it
> > seems that it doesn't work well for my card.
> 
> Actually, netif_wake_queue() was not re-added to the TXEXC handler, so any
> transmission error would stop the queue and cause the reset.
> 
> 
ah, ok, thanks!
I will give it a go.

d.




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