Hi,
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:30:00AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>>On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:48:57PM -1000, Warren Togami
wrote:
>>
>>>IBM Thinkpad T41
>>>Cisco Airo MPI350 802.11b Wireless
>>>PCIID: 0x14b9 0xa504
>>>Kernel: Fedora rawhide 2.6.1-1.57 (Based on 2.6.2-rc1)
>>>
>>>http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/t40.html#wireless
>>>http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/airo.c-2.6.1-mm2.diff
>>>airo.ko does not support this Airo device, but with the addition of
>>>this patch it recognizes the device.
>>
>>
>>
>[SNIP]
>Used the ACU tool under Windows XP for flashing the firmware. The
>newest firmware version that operates with your driver is:
>5.00.03
>
>Perhaps mention within a comment and/or config Help of your patch that
>the newest supported firmware is 5.00.03? That would save people like
>me a lot of time in the future...
>
Are these many errors normal?
[snip]
[root@ibmlaptop etc]# ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:8A:DF:50:FC
inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:8aff:fedf:50fc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:905 errors:655 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:655
TX packets:699 errors:33 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:30 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:439321 (429.0 Kb) TX bytes:118979 (116.1 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000
The "rx errors" value is generated by summing 4 error counters from the
card internal stats structure in airo_read_stats() :
RxOverrun, RxPlcpFormatErr, RxPlcpLengthErr and RxMacCrcErr.
Altough my connection is up and running, I also observe a high rate of
RxMacCrcErr errors :
% grep MacCrc /proc/driver/aironet/eth1/Stats
RxMacCrcErr: 7688
RxMacCrcOk: 11399
I think that these errors are probably just related to the quality of the
radio link, and do not reflect something bad, that would occur in the
driver itself.
Best wishes,
--
fabrice