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I have a DWL-520 and I've yet to get more then 30 hours (often under 5) before it just stops talking to the router. The only way to get them talking again is to reboot the PC. has anybody had this problem? I saw something about a time out error once........forget where, maybe dmesg. Can you restart just the PCI card? Is it a bug?
Alvin http://ka9qlq.tripod.com/
Hello
The router is a PCI D-link air DWL-520 not sure the revision, but it's not new. It ID's the Prism chips.
Mar 9 19:46:59 localhost kernel: prism2pci_init: prism2_pci.o: 0.2.1-pre19 Loaded
Mar 9 19:46:59 localhost kernel: prism2pci_init: dev_info is: prism2_pci
Mar 9 19:46:59 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 00:0d.0 (0114 -> 0116)
Mar 9 19:46:59 localhost kernel: A Prism2.5 PCI device found, phymem:0xf4009000, irq:10, mem:0xd292a000
To tell the truth I'm not sure about DHCP.
The card comes up on boot so I never tried ifup/down.
I've tried /etc/init.d/network restart to no avail but will try the other.
/var/log/messages says
Mar 9 19:44:24 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: wlan0: transmit timed out
Mar 9 19:44:24 localhost kernel: hfa384x_tx_timeout: Implement me.
Mar 9 19:44:29 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: wlan0: transmit timed out
Mar 9 19:44:29 localhost kernel: hfa384x_tx_timeout: Implement me.
over and over and over
Thanks a ton.
Alvin
Ok I found this
This appears to be a problem with the kernel APIC drivers related to the
on-board chipset. The solution is to add the following to lilo:
append=noapic
This will allow the kernel to communicate properly with the network
adaptor.
here http://www.lunar-linux.org/pipermail...ry/000088.html
I tried that and we'll see. Here's my lilo incase I did it wrong.
Alvin
boot="/dev/hda"
lba32
prompt
timeout="100"
message=/boot/message
root=/dev/hdc1
default=2.4.21-0.13
I unfortunately don't have any suggestions with for your problem with keeping your DWL 520 card working. Although I am very interested on how you were able to get it working. I have been struggling for a week now. I am new to Linux and I am not sure what driver I need to use or how to install it.
Linux does see that the pci card is there when I run lspci -vv I recieve the following information:
Well your card must have the Realtek 8180 chip set my card has a Prisum 2.5 chip set. The Linux drivers for the older chip sets have been prety well debugged, but the drivers for the new chip sets [like the 8180] stil have BUGGS! That's why I sold my 8180 card and got an older DWL-520 card.
I think the card flipping out is because the PC is a 400 mhz and when I load the CPU down it can't handle all the i/o. Firebird seems to make it die but it doesn't under Konqueror.
Alvin http://ka9qlq.tripod.com/
Well I never got mine to work, that's why I got an older card with a differnt chip set. Find a Windows user and sell it to them cause it works under Windows.
Alvin http://ka9qlq.tripod.com/
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