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Re: ipw2200 in 2.6.15-rc2-git4 warns about improper NETDEV_TX_BUSY retco

To: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ipw2200 in 2.6.15-rc2-git4 warns about improper NETDEV_TX_BUSY retcode
From: Alejandro Bonilla Beeche <abonilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:33:29 -0600
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Alessandro Suardi wrote:

Dell Latitude D610, FC4 base distro, kernel is:

[asuardi@sandman ~]$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.15-rc2-git4 (asuardi@sandman) (gcc version 4.0.1
20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5)) #2 Fri Nov 25 00:15:46 CET 2005

Onboard wireless card as detected by kernel is:
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8

and I placed the 2.4 firmware from sourceforge.net in /lib/firmware.

ifup eth1 yields this message:

eth1: NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; driver should report queue full via
ieee_device->is_queue_full.
There is bug 808 at bughost.org for the IPW2200 project.

I have asked the patch to be merged but I dunno why it hasn't been pushed up.

.Alejandro


I'm connected to my wireless DSL router while typing this mail
so it obviously isn't fatal...


Thanks,

--alessandro


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