Lucent wavelan giving wi0: watchdog timeout

Brian Somers brian at Awfulhak.org
Mon Jul 16 14:28:40 BST 2001


> wi0: <WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11> at port 0x240-0x27f irq 5 slot 0 on pccard0
> wi0: Ethernet address: 00:02:2d:29:d6:e5
> wi0: watchdog timeout
> wi0: watchdog timeout
> 
> Any help getting this working would save trailing a 30M cable from
> the house to my temporary house (a mobile home in the garden).

This is usually due to a broken IRQ.  There has been talk recently 
about the pcic code not allocating the IRQ as SHARABLE.  Your BIOS may 
be sharing the IRQ with another device, but then when the pcic driver 
intiialises, it fails -- either that or something is stealing irq 5 
(perhaps you've got an unconfigured sound card or something ?).  I'd 
suspect the latter as the former should result in the driver failing 
to load.

You could try adding a line to /boot/loader.conf:

machdep.pccard.pcic_irq="N"

where N is some other IRQ.  It may help.  If it doesn't, it may be 
worth asking on freebsd-mobile....

> Cheers, Roger

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