Subject: Re: wi0 device timeout with TI 1211 cardbus bridge
To: Alan Barrett <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <David.Laight@btinternet.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/22/2001 15:13:43
Sounds like you are missing the interrupt somewhere.....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
To: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 2:57 PM
Subject: wi0 device timeout with TI 1211 cardbus bridge


> I am trying to configure a wireless router using NetBSD-1.5.2/i386.  It
> works fine with a Texas Instruments 1410 PCI cardbus bridge.
> 
> When I swap the PCI cardbus bridge for a Texas Instruments 1211 model,
> everything seems fine initially: the kernel sees the device, wiconfig
> sees the device and reports good signal strength and happy association
> with the access point, ifconfig sees the device and reports that it's
> up, but no traffic flows.  The kernel prints "wi0: device timeout" from
> time to time.
> 
> Is the TI 1211 PCI cardbus bridge known to work or known to be broken?
> Am I likely to get better results with NetBSD-current?
> 
> --apb (Alan Barrett)