Wifi anomalies
Thomas Altfather Good <[email protected]>
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Hello, I'm new to the list. Being a slackware user since '95 I've always been kinda DIY but I am stumped... I have an HP Pavilion G5 box that's been relegated to the basement by my better half. Seems I have a habit of collecting strays. This box previously ran 13.0 with a Netgear WG311v3 (Marvell chip) wifi PCI card. No problems. I formatted the drv and installed 13.37 and lots of problems. I built the driver using ndiswrapper and initialized the card, no problem there. I connected to the router, etc. The trouble is hangups producing stale processes. The connection drops and the system sees me as still logged in. No rhyme or reason is immed. apparent. Sometimes I can scp large amounts of data (I'm a photographer), other times a text file will not make it. I bought a DLink DWA-131 (Realtek chip) USB wifi card. The system recognized it immediately, initializing it. It could scan the network and see the router but not connect. No problem, I've seen this before 13.37 - I used wicd and it worked fine. But the dropped connections continue on this card too. All of the wireless tools return sane values and all looks well. Indeed, under 13.0 and the same Netgear card I had no problems. But 13.37 is a different matter. Has anyone seen this? Any tips? Sorry if this issue has been raised before. greetings from NYC, Tom -- Thomas Altfather Good National Writers Union - UAW Local 1981 National Press Photographers Association International Federation of Journalists www.thomasgood.com IMPORTANT: All photographs and other original materials are copyright under the terms of the CC-BY-SA-3.0<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>/ GFDL<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License>dual license. Reuse, modification, and redistribution are permitted but attribution is required. Credit photos to: "Thomas Altfather Good" This e-mail transmission, including any previous messages or attachments to it, contains information that may be proprietary, confidential and/or privileged. _______________________________________________ slackware mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/slackware