I apologise for being slow to respond to this bug report. It was received from the address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, which I assume to be invalid, so I took the above addresses from www.bottlenose.demon.co.uk. Please let me know which address I should use for further messages.
Someone wrote:
> Installed this using modass for my Edimax PCMCIA card in
> a freshly lenny-installed Thinkpad T22.
> (Edimax card is a EW-7108PCg).
> Copied the firmware from Ralink site's .zip.
> I use WPA and openvpn (openvpn for historic reasons
> related to WEP insecurity and NFS just working better over it).
> Access point is an DWL-2000AP, 802.11g latest firmware.
> Network is shared with a couple of 802.11b devices (Roku Soundbridges).
>
> For general web-browsing via ADSL (4mbit), ssh to various other machines,
> and downloading .debs, it all works fine.
>
> However, loading up the network by doing a copy from an NFS share
> typically hangs up after a few tens of seconds of data transfer.
> Other concurrent network connections also hang up, and ping starts
> reporting:
> sendmsg: No buffer space available
>
> The output of dmesg is attached below and seems to indicate some
> event unexpected by the driver has ocurred.
> This includes both the card coming up, and the error message
> apparently triggered by the load (after the "...time passes..." line)
This is a known bug that should be fixed in later versions of the
driver. A fixed version of the driver is included in Linux 2.6.24.
Please try installing that, if you can. I am still working on an update
to rt2x00-source for use in 2.6.22 and 2.6.23.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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