Re: at76c503a network stalls after 30-60MB of traffic on MA101B usb wlan

On Nov 8, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Nick Steeves wrote:

> I have a similar situation here.  It seems to be related to the USB 
> chipset.
> I have had success with Intel and ALi chipsets.  I have had this 
> problem with
> VIA, and AMD(the original 756 to nForce) chips.  I think what would 
> happen,
> is that the chipset would hiccup, the USB NIC would "loose beacon", 
> and then
> the network would stall.  Taking down the offending interface, 
> unloading the
> modules, then re-loading, then re-iwconfig'ing and re-ifconfig wlan0 
> would
> fix it.

I use hotplug to load the device, and I can restore network function by
unplugging and replugging the usb device. I then get about the same
quantity of network traffic before it locks up again.