[ltp] ipw2200 / wpasupplicant lockups

[fire-eyes]

Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Adrian Bastholm wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I'm experiencing strange behaviour with ipw2200: when i download files 
>> which are big enough to take some time to download (~~25mb)  I  get 
>> disconnected according to the gnome wifi applet. Sometimes it 
>> reconnects in a second, some other times everything freezes. I also 
>> experience the freeze when i "killall wpa_supplicant" without 
>> unloading the module.
>> I have these problems on a R50e with Debian unstable (unstable may be 
>> a hint) and a Debian packaged kernel-2.6.18-4-686.
> 
> The ipw2200 firmware is crap andwill die under load, or even if it sees 
> certain data patterns (I have an SQL query to a remote server which 
> usually kills it).
> 
> http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=875#c10
> 
> has details on how to revive it.
> 
http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=697 too but be patient, very 
slow host.

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