Hard lock-up

James Harper james.harper at bigpond.com
Fri Apr 18 07:29:54 EDT 2003


Smp? Interrupt sharing?

james

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hostap-admin at shmoo.com [mailto:hostap-admin at shmoo.com] 
> On Behalf Of Mike Saywell
> Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2003 10:28
> To: hostap at shmoo.com
> Subject: Hard lock-up
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a hostap box which will just lock solid from time to 
> time. Transferring lots of data is generally a sure fire way 
> to kill it off
>  - copying an iso generally does the trick.
> 
> The only thing I can see in the logs before the lockup is:
> 
> Apr 17 00:40:56 beastie wlan0: STA 00:02:2d:53:62:e5 TX rate 
> lowered to 55 Apr 17 00:40:57 beastie wlan0: STA 
> 00:02:2d:53:62:e5 TX rate raised to 110 Apr 17 00:41:03 
> beastie wlan0: STA 00:02:2d:53:62:e5 TX rate lowered to 55 
> Apr 17 00:41:03 beastie wlan0: STA 00:02:2d:53:62:e5 TX rate 
> raised to 110 Apr 17 00:41:06 beastie wlan0: STA 
> 00:02:2d:53:62:e5 TX rate lowered to 55 Apr 17 00:41:07 
> beastie wlan0: STA 00:02:2d:53:62:e5 TX rate raised to 110
> 
> The client reports the signal strength as about -55db so I'm 
> not sure why it's switching rate like this?
> 
> This has only happened since upgrading the AP cards firmware 
> to 1.5.6, however I think I moved from the old 2002 stable 
> driver to a CVS one at the same time so it could also be 
> this.  It seems as though other people have reported problems 
> with the new driver but not the old one. I'll try an older 
> version of the driver when I get a chance.
> 
> I'm currently running 0.0.1 (which suffers from the problem).
> 
> Is there anything I could do to help debug this some more?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike Saywell
> 
> PS - with regards to the autoamtic wds link issue I was 
> having it seems I was in error.  I guess I must have manually 
> removed deleted the wds link or something, regardless the 
> auto-linking seems to be working fine now. :) 
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