Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG: wifi0: transmit timed out

From: Justin Mattock
Date: Tue Jul 29 2008 - 18:48:31 EST


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:47 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:58:59 -0700
>
>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:53:15 +0900
>> Komuro <komurojun-mbn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Please try to comment out the "WARN_ON_ONCE"
>> > at net/sched/sched_generic.c.
>> >
>>
>> "I have a hardware failure so I'll comment out the message that says
>> so, and then I won't have a failure". Yeah that'll work well.
>
> Yes, this is indeed a recidulious suggestion, to hide the problem
> instead of trying to figure out what it might actually be.
>
> Komuro has a serious problem accepting the fact that this condition is
> in fact an abnormal error should should be logged, and he keeps
> pushing to get this WARN_ON() removed over and over again.
>
> I'm just ignoring him at this point.
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I should of mentioned the madwifi module I've been
using is from february, so maybe madwifi took care of this already.
As for experimanting with ath9k I pulled yesterday and compiled,
but from what I saw ath9k seems to not handle wpa keys that well.
so back to madwifi until later on.

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