Re: wireless card and freezing

From: Nathaniel Janewit (njanewit_at_stanford.edu)
Date: 08/23/03 

Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:59:41 -0700

I have encryption (I believe that applies to WEP) disabled. It will
still hang. If there is more setup involved to disabling WEP than just
disabling a key, then please tell me.

As to trying a new driver, I heard that linux-wlan-ng messes with
iwconfig, which is something I want to avoid doing.

Any ideas for a solution would be a great help.

Nate

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 08:02:34 -0400
"B. Joshua Rosen" <bjrosen@polybus.com> wrote:

> 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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