Subject asks it all. Anyone jump on the latest cooker kernel and find any improvement in the situation vs 8.2/9.0?
I have 8.2, self-built kernel 2.4.18-8.1mdk. I had hoped that upgrading to this kernel from stock would correct a wireless problem I have been having. On my laptop, stock 8.2 kernel is fine - supermount works perfectly, and my wireless pcmcia card works fine. On my desktop, different story. Supermount working fine with 8.2 kernel and update, patchy with 2.4.19 from 9.0. USB wireless device patchy: it works for a few hours just fine but then loses connection to laptop and will NOT get it back short of a hard reboot. No error messages. This is specific to the desktop with USB wireless card (WUSB11 v2.6, atmel driver). Both ad-hoc and infrastructure mode crap out after working fine for several hours. Restarting usb, unloading and reloading the device's drivers, unplugging and plugging in device all fail to bring back a wireless connection. No error messages anywhere - and the config tool (xvnet or lvnet) both indicate management frames are still being detected OK. It is just impossible to ping or otherwise connect to the laptop. Routing tables remain OK and unchanged from before loss of connection. I tried the 2.4.19 kernel from 9.0 but had a number of problems and went back to 2.4.18 series. So...does the cooker kernel correct 9.0 kernel problems? I am informed by another who has the same sort of wireless equipment that I have had similar connectivity problems with wireless using Mandrake kernels but not with Slackware. This is a Mandrake-only situation. praedor
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