wg511 lockups and problems

I'm also seeing problems with my Netgear WG511 card.  It's at least a
year old, so
it's not a hardware versioning issue.

I see two failure modes.  Under normal use, every day or two it will
get into a state
where the TX led is almost solid on.  I can usually clear this condition
by setting the interface down and then up.  However, it will typically come=
 back
within an hour or two, so rebooting seems to clear it "better."  My normal
usage pattern is some web surfing and email now and then.

A failure mode I am seeing recently when I tried some P2P traffic
occurs within an hour or two.  The green link-state LED goes off and
on in about a ten second cycle.  It
seems like the card may be resetting, or reacquiring the link.  I can also=
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correct this by taking the interface down and up again, but it will come ba=
ck.

It's interesting to note that I can receive video from my mythtv box onto
the laptop with the WG511 for 2 hours straight without seeing any=20
issues.  Since this is mainly 1 direction
and the P2P traffic is balanced in both directions, maybe there are driver
problems when collisions occur, or the queues get larger, etc.

I previously used a D-link AP that only supported 802.11b, and saw
some occasional
issues with my WG511 (like every week or two). =20
Now that I'm using a Linksys WRT54GS (with 802.11g)
the problems seem to happen much more.  Unfortunately, the D-link died a co=
uple
weeks ago so I can no-longer do back-and-forth testing.

I'm running Debian sid, kernel 2.6.11, prism54 firmware 1.0.4.3.

-Rob
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Robert W. Brewer