Re: Wifi anomalies

Hey Thomas,

On Fri, 11 May 2012 09:19:15 -0400 Thomas Altfather Good <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Same here.    :-)

> 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.

Two very simple questions:

1) Have you checked the logs of the machine in question for
errors?

2) Do you have similar problem with a completely different
machine (eg a Macintosh or other)?

If you have errors on the local machine something may be
wrong with the machine hardware.

If you have errors with a completely different machine,
then you have a problem with your router.

[snip]
> 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.

Now, THAT sounds like a local problem to the machine.

> greetings from NYC,
> Tom

Hope this helps...

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