eth0: TX timeout errors
 

I have a small embedded system with a PCMCIA Wireless Ethernet card. The plan is to get this embedded system connected to the rest of a network via an access point.

The current situation is …

1) the PCMCIA card is registered with the cardmgr, and the drivers are loaded, and an i/p address of 10.1.10.15 gets allocated to the embedded system.
2) the access point can see the PCMCIA card and gets the MAC address
3) If I try to ping the network from the embedded system I think it’s half working, in that I can see traffic on the routers and the pinged PC responds, but nothing is received back on the embedded system. Instead I get stuff like this in the log…

Sep 19 10:56:46 rhobert user.info kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Sep 19 10:56:46 rhobert user.warn kernel: eth0: Tx timeout! ALLOCFID=0129, TXCOMPLFID=0128, EVSTAT=800b
Sep 19 10:56:46 rhobert user.debug kernel: orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=c1ae4800)
Sep 19 10:56:47 rhobert user.info kernel: eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)

I’ve tried looking for solutions on WWW but there is talk of devices like wlan0. I don’t have a wlan0. I think I read somewhere that it was obsolete. Should I have a wlan0 ? Because I’m building a small embedded systems I’m not using a distribution, so have had to create all the devices manually.

What I have got is…

Kernel is 2.4.31.
pcmcia-cs-2.3.7
wireless_tools.28

Any help appreciated.

Mike

I think I should clarify that the Access Point is part of the main network, and not physically part of the embedded system. The embedded system just has one PCMCIA wireless card.