On 11/21/07, Mike C <mike.cohler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Chris Norman <chris.norman4 <at> ntlworld.com> writes: > > > > > Hi all, > > Will a D-Link DWL-G630 work under Fedora core 8? > > > > Will I need anything extra to work it? > > I hope you don't mind me asking a related question here and not trying to hijack > this thread. > > I have an old laptop which has no wireless and am using a Dlink GWL-G650 > card - ath5k just crashes the kernel... so I installed madwifi 0.9.3.3 and > started wpa_supplicant up which works fine, and then did dhclient ath0 which > worked fine also. So now I have a lovely working connection - BUT ... > > ... within a minute I get a loud beep and messages on the screen such as: > > Message from syslogd@lapmike1 at Nov 20 21:16:43 ... > kernel: Disabling IRQ #11 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: irq 11: nobody cared (try booting with the > "irqpoll" option) > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c045b106>] __report_bad_irq+0x36/0x75 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c045b31c>] note_interrupt+0x1d7/0x213 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c045a7a3>] handle_IRQ_event+0x23/0x51 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c045bc4b>] handle_level_irq+0x88/0xb9 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c045bbc3>] handle_level_irq+0x0/0xb9 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c04074c3>] do_IRQ+0x8c/0xb9 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c0405b6f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c0431df0>] __do_softirq+0x50/0xd3 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c04073d5>] do_softirq+0x6c/0xce > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c045bbc3>] handle_level_irq+0x0/0xb9 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c0431cc9>] irq_exit+0x38/0x6b > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c04074d6>] do_IRQ+0x9f/0xb9 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c0407ec1>] do_syscall_trace+0x4b/0xde > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c0405b6f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c0610000>] xfrm_parse_spi+0x3c/0xc8 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: ======================= > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: ======================= > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: handlers: > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c05760b2>] (yenta_interrupt+0x0/0xb4) > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c05760b2>] (yenta_interrupt+0x0/0xb4) > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c057ae00>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4e) > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c057ae00>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4e) > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<f09b48da>] (irq_handler+0x0/0x19c > [firewire_ohci]) > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<f0c356f3>] (ath_intr+0x0/0x1309 [ath_pci]) > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: Disabling IRQ #11 > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: wifi0: hardware error; resetting > Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: wifi0: ath_reset: unable to reset hardware: > 'Hardware didn't respond as expected' (HAL status 3) > > I tried madwifi-ng from subversion and it essentially did the same. I used > version 0.9.3.2 and it did the same. There are kernel parameters that can > change the irq behaviour - and I have tried irqpoll which causes problems, > also noapic, nolapic, noirqdebug, irqfixup and various combinations and it > makes no difference. > > Anyone give me any pointers to a workaround. Your "old laptop" has a broken BIOS. Check to see if there's a newer one. Beyond that, you're likely out of luck. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand https://netllama.linux-sxs.org
