Bugzilla – Bug 154773
wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP with NETGEAR MA311
Last modified: 2006-04-26 15:17:03 UTC
Hi, I'm getting this errors after being online for several days (>2days). This does not happen with windows xp, so the hardware seems to be ok. The system gets unusable slow after klogd reports the first line of errormessage . The machine has to be cold started, rcnetwork restart doesn't seem to help. For me this sounds like a memory leak ? Any ideas ? I'm using orinoco_pci kernel module. WLAN NIC is a Netgear MA311, kernel-default-2.6.13-15.8. Mar 2 17:10:38 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 2 17:10:38 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f9932000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 2 17:10:38 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 2 17:10:38 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f9932000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 2 17:10:38 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 2 17:10:38 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f9932000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 2 17:10:38 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 2 17:10:38 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f9932000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 2 17:10:38 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP
Please attach: `hwinfo --wlan', /var/log/boot.msg and 300 lines of your syslog.
Created attachment 71158 [details] boot.msg
Created attachment 71159 [details] hwinfo --wlan
Created attachment 71160 [details] 300 lines of /var/log/messages
Attached the requested infos, hope they are correct. Have a nice weekend! Michael
Vladimir: Can you help here? If not, assign it back to us.
Sorry, no idea.
Kernel-Maintainers: Any idea? Who could take care about this?
Wifi goes to Joachim Gleißner and Jiri Benc
Does "iwpriv wlan0 force_reset" command help?
I havn't tried this one out yet. I'll try it out next time the error occurs.
Errors came back after 3 days this time. I executed "iwpriv wlan0 force_reset" command and it seemed to work. Please see attached log.
Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44 Mar 9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP Mar 9 06:45:18 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Force scheduling reset! Mar 9 06:45:18 berkeley kernel: wlan0: New link status: Connected (0001)
Created attachment 72058 [details] Patch Attached patch should fix the problem. Will be submitted upstream.
The patch is now in netdev tree and will be included in 2.6.18.
Thank you very much for fixing!