[Server-devel] Active Antenna woes

[John Watlington]

Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this.  It's been a rough  
week.
Are you still having problems ?

Does the same think happen when you attach the antennas after the
server is booted ?   Take a look at dmesg after doing this.

I'm having trouble

The tx_watchdog timeouts are due to problems in the
Marvell firmware/hardware.   A rewrite of the driver stopped this
problem from crashing the driver, but the underlying problem is still
happening.

Regards,
John

On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:56 PM, sulochan acharya wrote:

> Hi John,
> Both the antennas are using firmware version 31.07, and they work  
> fine separately, but i cant get them to behave
> when both are connected to the XS. In fact if i boot the machine  
> with two antennas connected it takes a long time to get to
> the point where it checks for the msh.
> Can it be a problem with the XS?
>
> I was able to get both to work for a short period of time  
> yesterday, but a network restart got me back to the same error  
> messages, and same problem. I did not reprogram the antennas  
> because both are actually working fine. It this problem same to  
> antenna going to repeater mode, i check the track for this error,  
> but didn't find something that matches this exact problem.
>
> Anyone with any knowledge on this please help.
>
> thanks,
>
> -Sulochan
>
> On Feb 15, 2008 8:25 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> Those messages are certainly from the driver, but it has been tested
> and works fine with multiple antenna.  The most likely source of this
> problem is old firmware in the second antenna.   Please take a look  
> at:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Active_Antenna_Reprogramming
>
> and ensure that the antenna is running v. 3107 of the firmware.
>
> A less likely possibility is actual hardware failure.   You might
> open the
> Antenna and make sure that the USB connection is still well soldered.
>
> John
>
> On Feb 15, 2008, at 1:22 AM, sulochan acharya wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I am having trouble getting two active antennas connected to the
> > server.
> >
> > This is what happens:
> >
> > 1.When i try to connect two antennas to the server and then start  
> it:
> > ERROR:
> >
> > klogctl: Invalid argument
> >
> > Starting udev: Intel_rng: FWH not detected
> >
> > libertas: firmware ini failed
> > And the server would not boot. It would just give libertas: tx
> > watchdog timeout error.
> >
> > I also got the following error:
> >
> > Warning : at /home/dwmw2/olpc-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/
> > if_usb.c:413 usb_tx_block() (Not tainted)
> > [<f8a06297>] usb_tx_block+0xb0/0xfa [usb8xxx]
> > ...
> > ...
> > ...
> > ...
> > Another error message:
> > Libertas: EXEC_NEXT_CMD:  pending data in-flight!
> > Schoolserver kernel : libertas: EXEC_NEXT_CMD: pending data in- 
> flight!
> > Rootlibertas: tx watchdog timeout
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. When i start the server with one antenna it works fine. If i add
> > a second one and do #service network restart
> > it would get suck trying to initiate msh1 ....msh0 is active at
> > this point.
> >
> > Also i get this warning all the time libertas: tx watchdog timeout
> >
> > Is this a known problem? Can someone point me towards the direction
> > to getting this fixed.
> > Is this a driver problem?
> >
> > best,
> > Sulochan
> >
> >
> >
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