On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:19:35AM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 05:27:19AM -0800, ALESSANDRO.SUARDI wrote:
> >
> >>I have a PPP over IrDA connection to my Nokia phone; under 2.4.20-preX I
> >>have no
> >>problem keeping the link up, while in 2.5.4x it fails in a very short
> >>time like this:
> >>
> >>Oct 13 01:13:13 dolphin kernel: IrLAP, no activity on link!
> >>Oct 13 01:13:11 dolphin kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: irda0: transmit timed out
> >>Oct 13 01:13:11 dolphin kernel: irda0: transmit timed out
> >>Oct 13 01:13:13 dolphin kernel: IrLAP, no activity on link!
> >>Oct 13 01:13:13 dolphin kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: irda0: transmit timed out
> >>Oct 13 01:13:13 dolphin kernel: irda0: transmit timed out
> >>Oct 13 01:13:13 dolphin pppd[5378]: Modem hangup
> >>Oct 13 01:13:13 dolphin pppd[5378]: Connection terminated.
> >>Oct 13 01:13:13 dolphin pppd[5378]: Connect time 1.8 minutes.
> >>Oct 13 01:13:13 dolphin pppd[5378]: Sent 19541 bytes, received 35933
> >>bytes.
> >>Oct 13 01:13:13 dolphin pppd[5378]: Exit.
> >>
> >>I also get the transmit timed out spam (why one with WATCHDOG and one
> >>without ?)
> >>in 2.4.20-pre but the IrLAP line isn't there. And the GPRS link stays
> >>up...
> >>
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance for any insight,
> >>
> >>--alessandro
> >
> >
> > Please do yourself a favor and give me a proper bug report,
> >including hardware, driver and irdadump.
> >
>
> Will provide irdadump stuff soon[-ish], I'm wading through a backlog
> of, uhm, too much email. The short-form report really meant "is this
> a known issue ?"...
irtty is busted, that's why I asked for the driver you are
using (its clearly a driver issue). I believe smc-ircc and irport are
sick as well.
> Anyway - the box is a Dell Latitude CPx750J with this:
>
> [root@dolphin root]# findchip -v
> Found SMC FDC37N958FR Controller at 0x3f0, DevID=0x01, Rev. 1
> SIR Base 0x3e8, FIR Base 0x290
> IRQ = 4, DMA = 3
> Enabled: yes, Suspended: no
> UART compatible: yes
> Half duplex delay = 3 us
>
> So clearly I'm using smc-ircc.o.
>
> (Of course I'll try and reproduce in 2.5.44 tonight or tomorrow).
Stop ! Daniele Peri has just released a new version of the SMC
driver (smc-ircc2, link on my web page). I would like you to try this
new driver and report to me. I plan to push this new driver in the
kernel soon. So, don't waste too much time on the old driver.
> Thanks,
>
> --alessandro
Have fun...
Jean
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