Comment 35 for bug 37773

My brother in law and I have both had exactly the same symptoms on Fedora Core 4 systems.

For some odd reason (at that time) we got the system at my brother in law up and running flawless relatively easy when we decided to do something about the problem.

Just today I got my own system fixed. In hindsight I makes sense if our problem has been with a madwifi-ng-0.9.4.5 package. With that installed the system more or less instantly hung-up at some level of wireless traffic, and copying a CD image over the net was a bullet-proof way to provoce the hang-up.

Today I installed the newly released replacement version for madwifi-ng that for some odd reason is numbered 0.9.0 (and called madwifi without -ng). On the other system 0.9.6.0 (without -ng, but still in the old version number system) runs flawless as mentioned.

So my conclusion has been, on a Fedora Core 4 system, that the package madwifi-ng-0.9.4.5 has contained something very bad that is already fixed in the latest versions. At least I can now hammer the connection with a file copy, ftp copy and VoIP call all at the same time, without the slightest problem. I've transported over 2 million packets in 15 minutes. That was not possible this morning, on my system.