sorry I forgot about that, I'm using a wrt54gs 1.0 with dd-wrt (legacy, if I remember correctly -- DD-WRT v24 (05/20/08) vpn - build 9517M Eko ) firmware. Uptime of 4 days, it has had its problems, but not so much of recent, the wireless was crashing fairly often a while back, but I last rebooted it before that 2 months ago. I've been using it without any wep/wpa of recent, I ran into some access devices that were fighting with it, and in the small town I live in, I doubt anyone else knows enough about computers to hack wifi...I hope...haven't seen anything in the logs. Hope that's helpful James On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 06 November 2009 21:52:42 James Grossmann wrote: >> my caps lock & scroll lock leds are not blinking, and yet the computer >> is frozen. (I'm not the best at terminology, I guess that might not >> be defined as a hard lock.) I get no odd messages in my syslog. I am >> using Ubuntu right now, so I'm guessing that they have all the >> prettyness going that they can, covering the important messages, but >> as it's not an actual oops, I'm not certain that's hurting us. > > Ubuntu's kernel team provide some helpful texts about getting more > informations out of the crashes: (a bit of a hassle) > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/CrashdumpRecipe > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSystemCrash > > but maybe you can save you some time: > 1. if possible update your compat-wireless > a crash bug (affects compat-wireless, wireless-testing and even -rcX series) > has been fixed. This bug is known to strike on configurations with a > high number of auth/assoc/deauth - cycles. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/908831/focus=41872 > > 2. Quintin Pitts had/has problems with the reliability of his > p54pci <-> pci-bus and wrote a patch: > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/53004/raw/ > > unfortunately for him, his pci-bridge is known to be faulty, > but maybe he found some real bugs after all. > > 3. replace firmware: > http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/fw-softmac/2.13.1.0.arm > http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/fw-softmac/lmac_2.7.0.0.arm > >> I am using network-manager, so it does reconnect, however, I find that >> to be less than optimal. > yeah, normally you can see such phenomena when you have a funky AP and > enable wifi powersaving... but this is unlikely, as the ps is disabled > (can be enabled with iwconfig wlanX power on) for this reason. > > can you please tell me more about your AP? > e.g: Product Name, Vendor, firmware revision, > is it 802.11 a/b/g/n, is WEP/WPA(2) enabled, or is it just an open ap? > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
