Re: prism2 usb lockup especially under load

Sorry, about truncated last message. Continues here.



On 1/2/06, matt pepar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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