Re: Re: Reliable unreliability with D-Link DWL-122 USB

--- [email protected] wrote:
> However, its not all bad news. The main culprit
seems
> to be hald, which in versions before 0.5.0 is
regularly
> reading /proc/bus/usb/devices and thus making the
lockup
> highly likely. As far as I can see from the hal
source
> code, a major change in 0.5.0 might remove this
behaviour -
> it will do the lookup only the once rather than
frequently.

Thanks for the info. The behaviour that I get is one
lockup shortly after booting up in the morning,
usually after accessing two or three image-heavy web
pages. I rarely get further lockups during the day
after that. I'm not sure if that fits with the culprit
being hal regularly reading /proc/bus/usb/devices.

> Unfortunately I don't have the time or the wits to
try
> and upgrade my system to test this theory.

I'll be upgrading from Fedora Core 3 to 4 when it
comes out shortly and it appears FC4 may use hal 0.5.2
. I'll report back after the upgrade.

Thanks again,

Dave


		
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