Orinoco Lock Up

rmack> I was sleapilly typing away from my laptop when my wireless LAN rmack> connection hung. The other end, a dual P3 system using a rmack> generic ISA->PCMCIA adapter and an Orinoco Silver v6.06 card rmack> had gone crazy. I don't know if the whole system was locked up rmack> or not but removing the Orinoco card and re-inserting fixed the rmack> wireless LAN.

This is such a common problem, that I now run this little script all the time. It triggers once or twice a day most days; more if I'm doing something that involves heavy network use. FWIW, the later 2.5 kernels seem to be better than 2.4.19.

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#!/bin/sh
tail -f /var/log/kern.log |
while read f
do

    if expr "$f" \: '.*eth1: Error' > /dev/null 2>&1
    then
	cardctl reset
    fi

done