Re: [lwlan-devel] prism2 usb lockup especially under load

Thanks for your reply.

I'm not running hald but I have been doing a lot of searching on google,
configuring, coding etc.

Here is what I found out:

I believe I have solved the problem for my piece of hardware.




On 12/31/05, Karl Relton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 08:29 +1100, matt pepar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having trouble with a netgear ma111 usb dongle.
> >
> > It seems to be the same problem occuring in this message:
> >
> >
> http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2005-May/003252.html
> >
> > That is, the adapter seems to lock-up (same error messages),
> > especially under high load.
> >
> > I am running kernel 2.6.10 with a VIA 8233 USB host.
> > I would be interested in trying to fix this problem.
> >
> > I imagine that the prism2 pc/pci cards work OK under high load, so
> > problems would likely be located in the USB code?
> >
> > Any thoughts on this?
> >
>
> Matt
>
> Look over on the linux-wlan-user maillist for the same time period,
> where there is alot more discussion.
>
> It mostly boils down to the hald daemon. Are you still on hal 0.4.7? If
> so, upgrading to 0.5.x is recommended. Even with that, you may need to
> arrange things so that your wifi card does not initialise until after
> hal has started, and/or sanitise your hotplug/coldplug support code.
>
> Rest assured though that the problem can be overcome - I haven't had a
> lock for months now.
>
> Karl
>
>

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