Re: wireless card and freezing

From: B. Joshua Rosen (bjrosen_at_polybus.com)
Date: 08/23/03 

Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 08:02:34 -0400

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 01:40:03 -0700, Nathaniel Janewit wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I run RedHat9 kernel 2.4.20-20.9 on a Dell Inspiron 8200. I have
> configured a wireless 802.11b card, the Linksys WPC11 Network Card, as
> eth1 retrieving IP information using dhcp. After about 7 hours of normal
> use (this is consistent every time I try it), my computer will freeze.
>
> It will not respond to mouse or keyboard (not even Ctrl+Alt+Del or
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace), and the hard disk will whir for a long time and act
> as if busy but does not do anything. The computer will respond to ping
> (indicating perhaps the kernel or maybe my network card is still alive)
> but will not respond to ssh. The output in/var/log/messages immediately
> before the freeze is as follows:
>
> Aug 22 16:15:19 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 63.207.122.60
> port 67
> Aug 22 16:15:19 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 63.207.122.60 Aug 22
> 16:15:19 localhost dhclient: bound to 63.207.122.105 -- renewal in 3595 s
> econds.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
>
>
> Nate Janewit
> P.O. Box 12424
> Stanford, CA 94309
> (740) 701-6285

Do you have WEP enabled? If you do try disabling it. My experience with
this card is that it works fine with WEP off but hangs with WEP on. When
it hangs there is no way to get it to work again without rebooting the
machine, ifdown/ifup are useless after a WEP induced hang.

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