RE: DWL-650 card insert leads to 99% cpu usage

>Hi
>
>I've given up on the debian packages and tried building from latest
>(0.2.2) source, to take advantage of the ram downloading of the
>firmware as described in the faq.
>
>I have built the source, edited pcmcia/network.opts, restarted pcmcia
>as described in the README. When I insert the card, the cpu jumps to
>99% usage, and various wlan.agent processes immediately consume
>roughly half available memory. To get a usable system again I have to
>pop out the card and then play whack-a-mole with multiple wlan.agent
>processes.

Hi James,
I had a similar problem to this with a usb card. I'd modified
the /etc/wlan/shared script and saved a backup to shared.old.

Unfortunately, shared loads & runs all /etc/wlan/shared.* so

shared => shared.old => shared.old => shared.old ....

leading to 100% cpu, no free memory & hotplug seemed to keep creating
new wlan.agents.

Therefore check /etc/wlan for extra copies of the shared.* script. 
I think there should only be one, shared.prism2, but I'm not sure what
difference pcmcia makes.

HTH
Cheers
Richard