Re: After kernel upgrade to 2.6.12 no connection anymore :-(

Jim MacBaine wrote:
> On 8/17/05, Ruud Linders <rkmp-qWit8jRvyhVmR6Xm/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>After upgrading my kernel from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12, I can't get a
>>working link anymore.
> 
> 
> Yes, we have had this topic here a few times already.  But noone here
> has enough techical knowledge to fix the driver.  So the driver is
> obviously unmaintained.
>  

That's too bad :-(  I've been using it for long time without problems.

> 
>>Effect is no message seems to get through.
> 
> 
> If you'd look closer, you'd probably see that arp requests get through
> but that they are not answered.

Hmm, I'll have a look at that.

> 
> 
>>Been using this the at76c503a driver since years started back with 2.4.x.
>>
>>With atmelwlandriver cvs version from sourceforge I actually got
>>a working connection on kernel 2.6.12 (although only channel 10
>>seems to work ?!)
> 
> 
> I have switched from the atmelwlandriver to at76c503c after I had
> massive problems with the first one (still on 2.4), complete system
> stalls, spontaneous reboots and often a completley unresponsive usb
> system, which is quite bad with a usb keyboard.
> 
> But maybe it is time to try the atmelwlandriver again.  Is it working
> stable on 2.6.12 for you?

I've been running it now for a day or 2 and I can't say that there have
been these disastrous errors.  Building/installing was painless so it
seems to be rather up-to-date AND it uses standard 'iwconfig' to setup
(I have some vague memoeries it used to require strange tools to manage)

Once it is running it seems to work alright, however, it is doing weird
things when starting up. I try to set it up in ad-hoc mode on fixed
channel but it insists in scanning all channels/networks in the
neighborhood to "join" something. So when I don't have my laptop powered
on (as the other side of the wireless link) it will lock on another
channel (with =my=  wep-key & essid) which happens to be used by some
neighbor two appartments away !?


I think it is time to switch to something newer with 802.11g support
with Access Point functionality and proper linux(-usb) support.

> 
> Regards,
> Jim
> 
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