-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Running one system in AP mode with DHCP turns out not to avoid the problem. I tried AP/DHCP and the wireless connection went dead just like it does with ad-hoc after several hours. Me thinks it must be related to USB driver/support issues. I am using the uhci usb device driver rather than the usb-uhci (as recommended) though I did try the usb-uhci anyway and got the hard system lockup after about an hour.
With AP/DHCP going, even when the communication between systems died, the wireless connection remained - xvnet still counts off incrementing management frames and my laptop with hostap still indicates a connection. No information is transferrable between systems, however. As with ad-hoc when the connection goes south, pinging produces destination unreachable messages and the usb device (wusb11) fails to increment/detect incoming packets from the pinging laptop. This problem exists with the 2.4.18-6mdk and 2.4.18-8.1mdk kernel. Unfortunately, the 2.4.19 mdk kernels have other problems that render them a nonsolution for me (buggy/broken supermount, failure to handle my zip drive, usb problems, plus a few other odds and ends). praedor On Monday 25 November 2002 04:26 pm, you wrote: > Hi, I'm going to jump in with a few systemic suggestions. First set > your HostAP to managed mode. Second install NoCat Auth to manage your > routing on your AP. Third get DHCP server running on your server. Put > Pump on your client. [...] > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Behalf Of Praedor Atrebates > > Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 11:00 AM > > To: Mandrake-expert > > Cc: Atmel-driver-usb; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Problems with wireless...unknown source (long) > > > > > > I am having problems with wireless connectivity between an > > IBM Thinkpad with > > prism2-based wireless card using hostap_cs and my desktop > > with a wusb11 v2.6 > > wireless device using the atmel driver. Both systems are > > running Mandrake > > 8.2, kernel 2.4.18-6mdk. [...] > > but only for segments of hours. After a few hours (first > > time around 3, > > second time ~8 hours - overnight), with no change obvious in > > the state of > > either system, the wireless connection just stops working. > > The syslogs of > > each system still indicates they are "connected" but any > > attempt to ping > > either direction produces destination unreachable messages. > > The pings are > > sent to the correct IPs, however. [...] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE95MHymkm5RO1gX9cRAmUrAJ44A7SysvJnp+bNDE4WSJFP4SZ4wgCgzLFU FgbMjf9z/uHoC4Sjiw6BJbk= =7+ry -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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