Lucent wavelan giving wi0: watchdog timeout

Neil Ford neil at ourshack.com
Mon Jul 16 20:16:26 BST 2001


On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 06:07:29PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:08:41PM +0100, Roger McCalman wrote:
> > > I recently got 2 Lucent Orinoco cards, 1 for my laptop and one
> > > for my desktop box. The laptop top appears to work fine.
> > > 
> > > The desktop is accessed via a PCI to PCMIA adaptor and when the
> > > network link is brought up using ifconfig it gives 
> > > 
> > > wi0: watchdog timeout
> > > 
> > It should be pointed out the the PCI adapter is a very touchy piece of
> > hardware, Lucent's recommendation is you only use it in a machine that has
> > no ISA bus whatsoever and is compliant with the latest PCI spec (2.something).
> > In all other cases they recommend using the ISA card.
> 
> They now sell a USB version - actually a PCMCIA card mounted in a box 
> with a USB cable hanging out the back.  Paul's got one that he 
> intends to play with :)
> 
I have two for customers, if I get a chance I'll play with one before I
do the install.

Neil.

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Neil C. Ford
Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited
neil at yacsc.com




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