Praedor, Don't know dink about wireless.... yet. But a change to 9.0's init scripts related to wireless came out yesterday... This might help... It might not.... don't know..
James On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 04:16, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > Subject asks it all. Anyone jump on the latest cooker kernel and find any > improvement in the situation vs 8.2/9.0? > > I have 8.2, self-built kernel 2.4.18-8.1mdk. I had hoped that upgrading to > this kernel from stock would correct a wireless problem I have been having. > On my laptop, stock 8.2 kernel is fine - supermount works perfectly, and my > wireless pcmcia card works fine. On my desktop, different story. Supermount > working fine with 8.2 kernel and update, patchy with 2.4.19 from 9.0. USB > wireless device patchy: it works for a few hours just fine but then loses > connection to laptop and will NOT get it back short of a hard reboot. No > error messages. This is specific to the desktop with USB wireless card > (WUSB11 v2.6, atmel driver). Both ad-hoc and infrastructure mode crap out > after working fine for several hours. Restarting usb, unloading and > reloading the device's drivers, unplugging and plugging in device all fail to > bring back a wireless connection. No error messages anywhere - and the > config tool (xvnet or lvnet) both indicate management frames are still being > detected OK. It is just impossible to ping or otherwise connect to the > laptop. Routing tables remain OK and unchanged from before loss of > connection. > > I tried the 2.4.19 kernel from 9.0 but had a number of problems and went back > to 2.4.18 series. So...does the cooker kernel correct 9.0 kernel problems? > I am informed by another who has the same sort of wireless equipment that I > have had similar connectivity problems with wireless using Mandrake kernels > but not with Slackware. This is a Mandrake-only situation. > > praedor > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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