Comment 188 for bug 50214
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| Gene Caldwell (gene-caldwell) wrote | #188 |
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Steve and Alexander,
Here are test results for 2 different wifi chipsets:
PRISM54:
The first was my bigger wish list fix: Prism54 SUCCESS using LiveCD
tested hiding SSID while connected to exposed network, re-connected successfully. This was a problem prior. looks like its fixed.
logged on to completely hidden SSID sucessfully !
8.04 reports chipset as follows: Intersel ISL 3890 Prism GT/Prism Duette / ISL 3886 Prism Javelin/ Prism Xbow - Prism54PCI driver used.
using this LiveCD looks like it solves the problem with that chipset, however as I said before, I had sucess on 7.10 also using LiveCD until I installed, then it switched to WEP drivers from WPA and was very very troublesome to get it to finally detect correctly and when it did finally, it had the hidden SSID issue. ATM, I think its good tho.
Atheros:
Second chipset FAILED completely AND crashed NM. NM could not be restarted. had to reboot computer. may have been low memory issue @ 256 mb causing some boot issues, raised to 384mb memory re-ran test, booting fine now. NM no longer crashing, however could NOT connect to hidden SSID. 8.04 reported chipset as Atheros AR2413 802.11bg NIC - ath_pci driver.
tested connecting to hidden SSID FAILS
tested connecting to exposed SSID SUCEEDS.
This computer is just an old generic computer I built 10 years ago, PIII @500mhz, 384mb memory, Nvidia vedio card, SCSI HD subsystem. Runs 7.10 just fine.
I have suspicions that 256 mb memory is an issue right now with current beta status. I'm assuming that basic hardware requirements are still the same tho. Pentium class processor and min 256mb memory.