[ltp] ipw2200 / wpasupplicant lockups
Adrian Bastholm
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 4 Feb 2007 03:53:24 +0100
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Thanks.. It's reasuring to know i'm not alone :)
On 2/2/07, fire-eyes <sgtphou@fire-eyes.org> wrote:
>
> 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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Thanks.. It's reasuring to know i'm not alone :)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">fire-eyes</b> <<a href="mailto:sgtphou@fire-eyes.org">sgtphou@fire-eyes.org</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote:<br>> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Adrian Bastholm wrote:<br>><br>
>> Hi,<br>>> I'm experiencing strange behaviour with ipw2200: when i download files<br>>> which are big enough to take some time to download (~~25mb) I get<br>>> disconnected according to the gnome wifi applet. Sometimes it
<br>>> reconnects in a second, some other times everything freezes. I also<br>>> experience the freeze when i "killall wpa_supplicant" without<br>>> unloading the module.<br>>> I have these problems on a R50e with Debian unstable (unstable may be
<br>>> a hint) and a Debian packaged kernel-2.6.18-4-686.<br>><br>> The ipw2200 firmware is crap andwill die under load, or even if it sees<br>> certain data patterns (I have an SQL query to a remote server which
<br>> usually kills it).<br>><br>> <a href="http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=875#c10">http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=875#c10</a><br>><br>> has details on how to revive it.<br>><br>
<a href="http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=697">http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=697</a> too but be patient, very<br>slow host.<br><br>--<br>"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300
<br>games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and<br>missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is<br>why I succeed." - Michael Jordan<br>--<br>The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
<br><a href="http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad">http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>I would change the world, but they won't give me the sourcecode
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