From: Jouni Malinen (jkmaline_at_cc.hut.fi)
Date: 2002-07-25 21:40:23 UTC
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:31:41PM -0400, Rob French wrote:
> I get the following message repeated -a lot- in /var/log/syslog:
>
> Jul 25 20:29:54 jukebox kernel: wlan0: TXEXC - fid=0x01a3 -
> status=0x0001 ([RetryErr]) tx_control=000c
> The link otherwise seems to be running fine. Now, I read in another
> message that this is at least semi-normal. The two computers,
> incidentally, are maybe 5 or 6 yards apart, hardly long distance.
> Anyhow, my main question is how to stop this logging... I've managed to
> generate quite a sizeable syslog file now!
Yes, those are quite normal; retries fail every now and then due to interference etc. The messages are written at lowest log level (KERN_DEBUG) which is not normally written into syslog. You can either configure your syslog not to log these or remove the debug logging from Host AP driver. Latest CVS version can be compiled with following command to disable all PDEBUG messages in the driver:
make pccard EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DPRISM2_NO_DEBUG"
This will remove TXEXC reporting and some other messages. If you want to get rid of just those TXEXC messages, remove PDEBUG lines from prism2_txexc() function in driver/modules/hostap_hw.c (or prism2.c if you are using older version).
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