Comment 73 for bug 190515

Ha - I typed too soon

I just got lucky and had a rare moment of calm after slowing down to
11M. The driver now crashes my machine all the time. It is almost
unusable. What on earth are the developers doing allowing this to
continue when the old driver was perfect for years. Why should I or
anybody have to learn how to re-install the old one. I will certainly
have to remove ubuntu from my machine soon as I need a stable web link.
I don't feel confident in doing a back port. I am very un-geek. Such a
shame. A brilliant distro ruined by a silly driver problem.

Take note Ubuntu - people have old cards and use Linux because they
expect their old hardware to work.

Vici

P.S. My PC crashed and had to be re-booted twice whilst writing and
sending this message!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vici wrote:
> Hi Niskitonf
>
> I can confirm that with my Asus / AMD Athlon and Belkin card system -
> changing from 54M to 11M seems to have cleared the bug - I haven't
> crashed once since the mod.
>
> Thanks for that Niskitonf - I have been without a stable system since I
> upgraded to Hardy Heron back about Easter. What a relief and luxury not
> to have to re-boot 7 times a night. Just wish Ubuntu spent more time
> getting their priorities right. I very nearly gave up and installed a
> different distro. Your solution came just as I was about to change for
> good. We must be able to connect to the internet or we will always look
> elsewhere - when will programmers learn this priority. Keep the customer
> at all costs and worry about luxuries later is basic business sense. I
> would have been so sad as Hardy seems to be easily my best distro yet.
> It is so much better than Vista; but then, so is everything else
> including XP - he he.
>
> Ta Vici
>
>
> niskitonf wrote:
>
>> I have an Edimax EW7128g, using the ralink RT61 driver, which apparently
>> should "work out of the box" on Ubuntu Hardy
>> (http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/). Anyway, it does,
>> and iwconfig shows that it is correctly recognised as connecting via 54M
>> 11g . However, download speed is approximately 1Mbps (compared to 10Mbps
>> on Windows), and upload around 200Kbps (compared to 4Mbps). I also
>> experience random freezes whilst downloading large files (see separate
>> bug for other reports on similar freezes
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/228633). When I place the
>> computer next to the wireless router, the signal strength is around 50%.
>> Strangely, after moving to another room with 3 intervening walls, the
>> signal strength increases to 60%, although the download speed decreases.
>>
>> Downloading the backport modules as suggested above does not help.
>> Interestingly, if I change the speed of the connection to 11M by typing
>> "iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M", the download speed increases to around 4Mbps,
>> and the upload speed to around 2Mbps when I am next to the router. Now,
>> moving into the other room again, where the signal strength is around
>> 60%, the download speed decreases to about 700Kbps, but the upload speed
>> remains at 2Mbps. Windows achieves the same speeds (10Mbps and 4Mbps for
>> download and upload respectively) wherever I place the computer.
>>
>> So far, it seems that the freezing only occurs when the rate is set to
>> 54M, and not when it is set to 11M.
>>
>> I am running Hardy, with kernel 2.6.24-19.
>>
>> I have not yet tried ndiswrapper on the windows driver, but thought my
>> observations may possibly be of interest/use to someone.
>>
>>
>>
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