On Monday 15 March 2010 09:08:25 Jan Martinek wrote: > Hello, Hi, > thank you very much to both of you for your answer. The reference to > hostapd really helped me and now everything works fine. I set WPA2 with > CCMP. > > Well, there is one surprise. My computer, which serves as an Access > Point used to be very stable. But since yesterday evening, when I got > hostapd working the uptime is only several minutes, then it freezes. > > It strongly depends on client's activity. Heavy internet traffic through > WiFi makes my computer freeze. For example, if client (windows machine) > connects to my WiFi network and watches some online video, it is a sure > way to freeze the Access Point in several seconds. > > I did not find anything suspicious in dmesg nor /var/log/messages. > > This is my card: > > 03:06.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism > Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01) > > It is Z-Com XG-901 (Full-MAC, I think). _9_01. Interesting > Does anyone else encountered freezing problems under heavy internet load? Probably related to: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11386 You can either patch the kernel yourself, Or switch to compat-wireless (which does also include fixes for mac80211-stack.) Regards, Chr -- 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
