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

Richard Kennedy <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:02:53 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.linux-wlan.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yes, simpler would be good :)

As you say there's only support for the one chipset, I guess in the
short term we could just remove the for loop and load shared.prism2
directly. This will at least stop anyone else falling into this trap.

Richard

  
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 09:49 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 05:24:14PM +0100, Richard Kennedy wrote:
> > shared => shared.old => shared.old => shared.old ....
> > 
> > leading to 100% cpu, no free memory & hotplug seemed to keep creating
> > new wlan.agents.
> 
> I've been bitten by this one before, in fact.  It was mildly 
> frustrating.  
> 
> It's just one more aspect of linux-wlan-ng that's kinda irrelevant as it 
> only supports one chipset.   Sigh.  I guess it would be prudent to start 
> ripping out that crap.
> 
>  - Solomon