D-Link DWL-G630 and FC8.

[Mike C]

Chris Norman <chris.norman4 <at> ntlworld.com> writes:

> 
> Hi all,
> Will a D-Link DWL-G630 work under Fedora core 8?
> 
> Will I need anything extra to work it?

I hope you don't mind me asking a related question here and not trying to hijack
this thread.

I have an old laptop which has no wireless and am using a Dlink GWL-G650
card - ath5k just crashes the kernel... so I installed madwifi 0.9.3.3 and
started wpa_supplicant up which works fine, and then did dhclient ath0 which
worked fine also. So now I have a lovely working connection - BUT ...

... within a minute I get a loud beep and messages on the screen such as:

Message from syslogd at lapmike1 at Nov 20 21:16:43 ...
 kernel: Disabling IRQ #11
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: irq 11: nobody cared (try booting with the
"irqpoll" option)
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c045b106>] __report_bad_irq+0x36/0x75
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c045b31c>] note_interrupt+0x1d7/0x213
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c045a7a3>] handle_IRQ_event+0x23/0x51
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c045bc4b>] handle_level_irq+0x88/0xb9
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c045bbc3>] handle_level_irq+0x0/0xb9
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c04074c3>] do_IRQ+0x8c/0xb9
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c0405b6f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c0431df0>] __do_softirq+0x50/0xd3
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c04073d5>] do_softirq+0x6c/0xce
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c045bbc3>] handle_level_irq+0x0/0xb9
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c0431cc9>] irq_exit+0x38/0x6b
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c04074d6>] do_IRQ+0x9f/0xb9
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c0407ec1>] do_syscall_trace+0x4b/0xde
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c0405b6f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  [<c0610000>] xfrm_parse_spi+0x3c/0xc8
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  =======================
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel:  =======================
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: handlers:
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c05760b2>] (yenta_interrupt+0x0/0xb4)
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c05760b2>] (yenta_interrupt+0x0/0xb4)
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c057ae00>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4e)
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<c057ae00>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4e)
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<f09b48da>] (irq_handler+0x0/0x19c
[firewire_ohci])
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: [<f0c356f3>] (ath_intr+0x0/0x1309 [ath_pci])
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: Disabling IRQ #11
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: wifi0: hardware error; resetting
Nov 20 21:16:43 lapmike1 kernel: wifi0: ath_reset: unable to reset hardware:
'Hardware didn't respond as expected' (HAL status 3)

I tried madwifi-ng from subversion and it essentially did the same. I used 
version 0.9.3.2 and it did the same. There are kernel parameters that can 
change the irq behaviour - and I have tried irqpoll which causes problems,
also noapic, nolapic, noirqdebug, irqfixup and various combinations and it
makes no difference.

Anyone give me any pointers to a workaround.