Re: wireless card and freezing

From: Paul Kimoto (kimoto_at_lightlink.com)
Date: 08/23/03 

Date: 23 Aug 2003 10:03:04 -0400

In article <20030823014003.1956d434.njanewit@stanford.edu>,
Nathaniel Janewit wrote:
> 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.

I guess you are using the orinoco_cs driver (since the device is "eth1").
Have you tried the linux-wlan-ng driver (perhaps RH9 provides it)? Most
people seem to prefer it for the Prism cards. (It calls the device "wlan0"
or similar.)

  http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/ 

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