Elijah, Thanks for this information. It would be great if you can start a bug with all this info and then we can follow the suggested steps and results.
Ricardo - can you add suggested tests for Elijah since this is an area you have spent a lot of your time recently :-) Thanks, Kim On Dec 10, 2007 7:39 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > today i updated my b4 to the latest firmware, then installed ship-2 via > usb, then olpc-updated to the latest joyride build that i could find. > > [the impetus for the updates, today, beyond the RTC bug, was that the > wireless on the B4 didn't seem to want to come on. Empty neighborhood > screen, etc. There were some libertas error messages in the dmesg output, > which were initially somewhat concerning. Now, I wish that I'd written > them down. Oops.] > > a minute ago my ubuntu laptop (an aging dell inspiron 8200, with 802.11b > truemobile mini-pci card, running 2.6.22...) started spewing error > messages and the card began frequently resetting itself. LOTS of spewage. > > turning the b4 off seems to have eliminated the issue. huh. :-) > > > possible complicating factors: > > My local network has a BUNCH of 802.11g devices on it. A d-link pci card, > several different belkin and linksys usb dongles, etc. All talking to the > one AP. And there are several, several, several APs RF-visible from here > - typically 20-30, depending on which window of the house you happen to be > closest to. > > There's also a B2-1 here, running 406.15, with very non-current-ish > firmware on it. > > the AP to which the laptop and the B4 were both connected is a Netgear > WGR614v6, running firmware V2.0.13_1.0.13NA. The B2-1 was disconnected > and at a point where it would have liked for me to type in a WEP key. > > The AP is WEP, as there are several devices that don't do WPA and still > need to work. > > This sounds a little bit like the reported WDS/frame/mesh scenarios that > I've seen mentioned on a couple of occasions recently... but not exactly. > > I am happy to do further testing - and endure further possible crashes of > my non-XO laptop - to help get this stable again. :-) > > --elijah > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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