[Prism54-users] WG511 card (islpci_mgt_response) lockup

Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof@ruslug.rutgers.edu
Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:22:40 -0500 (EST)


We are looking into this. It's high priority, at least for me.

	Luis

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, James C. Clark wrote:

> I still have this problem and can repeat it pretty consistently if I load
> the card heavily. Things work properly if the throughput is low and even
> when it locks up it does not lock up my machine. A simple cardctl
> eject/cardctl insert gets things working again. I have been patiently
> waiting for the fix to fall out of one of the other changes. I upgrade the
> module every couple of days.
>
> Since I haven't seen lots of complaints about this I assume it is not a
> general problem but something related to this card and/or my setup. I
> would be more than willing to do some testing and troubleshooting if
> someone would point me in the right direction about what to look for.
>
> Jim
>
> >  >Nov  9 11:13:30 thor kernel: islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty,
> >  >retrying (jiffies left = 40
> >  >Nov  9 11:13:30 thor kernel: islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty,
> >  >retrying (jiffies left = 30
> >  >Nov  9 11:13:30 thor kernel: islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty,
> >  >retrying (jiffies left = 20
> >  >Nov  9 11:13:31 thor kernel: islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty,
> >  >retrying (jiffies left = 10
> >  >Nov  9 11:13:31 thor kernel: islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty,
> >
> > I had the same problem few minutes after starting my Netgear WG511 on my
> > Fujitsu-Siemens Liefebook E7110 first time (2.6.0 Kernel, debian).
> > I used this patch: prism54-cvs20031231.tar.bz2
> > Messages are repeated thousands times in syslog, all consoles hung and I
> > only could poweroff PC. not even acpi-powerbutton poweroff worked.
> >
> > Is there any solution?
> > I had something similiar one year ago with an old orinico_pci driver I
> > needed for my intern wlan-card. that was fixed with newer code.
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