r818x driver freezes randomly
Bug #31857 reported by
diegoe
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Ben Collins |
Bug Description
This PCMCIA network driver freezes sometimes under random circumstances, often when you transmit info. Receiving doesn't seem to be a problem. Doing a scp or drag-dropping into remote locations in nautilus will freeze the system.
Changed in linux-source-2.6.15: | |
assignee: | nobody → ben-collins |
Changed in linux-source-2.6.15: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
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I suppose this driver is broken. I've been using ndiswrapper with breezy before. I currently made a clean install with dapper and it had this wifi driver of it's own, but it seemd to be poor.
When I tried to log in my WEP protected network the the whole system did freeze. I tried changing security options but it just couldn't make it. When I logged in to text terminal and activated the wifi-connection I saw that these drives causes kernel panic. I got my wlan working by disabling WEP but even though the signal strength jumped between 0% to 100% on the same room in which my natbox is. With ndiswrapper the signal strength did'nt jump like that. So I blacklisted those wifi-card modules which are r818x and ieee80211_rtl. And now the signal strength and WEP-protection is handled with ndiswrapper and it works well.
The current kernel I'm using is 2.6.15-18-386. I hope you guys get this fixed soont. :)