On Monday 19 July 2004 11:34, Simon Burge wrote:
> On my Toshiba-badged Orinoco:
>
> 	wi0 at pcmcia1 function 0: <TOSHIBA, Wireless LAN Card, Version 01.01>
> 	wi0: 802.11 address 00:02:2d:52:d6:f8
> 	wi0: using Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE
> 	wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (8.42.1)
> 	wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
>
> I see the following errors in groups of three:
>
> 	wi0: bad alloc 1f7 != 1f9, cur 2 nxt 2
> 	wi0: bad alloc 1f8 != 1f9, cur 2 nxt 2
> 	wi0: bad alloc 1f9 != 1f7, cur 0 nxt 0
>
> 	wi0: bad alloc 1f7 != 1f9, cur 2 nxt 2
> 	wi0: bad alloc 1f8 != 1f9, cur 2 nxt 2
> 	wi0: bad alloc 1f9 != 1f7, cur 0 nxt 0
>
> 	wi0: bad alloc 1f7 != 1f8, cur 1 nxt 1
> 	wi0: bad alloc 1f8 != 1f7, cur 0 nxt 0
> 	wi0: bad alloc 1f9 != 1f7, cur 0 nxt 0
>
> 	wi0: bad alloc 1f7 != 1f9, cur 2 nxt 2
> 	wi0: bad alloc 1f8 != 1f9, cur 2 nxt 2
> 	wi0: bad alloc 1f9 != 1f7, cur 0 nxt 0
>
> After each group of three messages there is no more network traffic
> and an "ifconfig down/ifconfig up" gets it working for a little while
> longer.  The longest it worked was for maybe 3 minut
> es with an ssh to 
> another local box just doing "ls" and other simple commands.  Would
> these be the "spurious errors" you refer to?

It might be.  Do you have some process that's polling the state of the 
interface?