Bug#473709: madwifi-source: Connection drops within an hour

[Kel Modderman]

Hi Bill,

On Tuesday 01 April 2008 14:11:18 Bill Wohler wrote:
> Package: madwifi-source
> Version: 1:0.9.4~rc2-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> After a recent upgrade to madwifi-source version 1:0.9.4~rc2-1 and
> linux-image-2.6.24-1-686, my network connection drops within an hour.
> Under linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 and version 1:0.9.3.2-2 of
> madwifi-source, my connection would remain up indefinitely.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't see any diagnostics in /var/log.
> 
> I'm going to try installing the etch version of madwifi-source with
> 2.6.24 and I'll report back. That should tell us whether this is a
> madwifi-source or kernel problem, eh?

To be honest, I have not many easy ideas of how you may track this bug down;
it would most probably be the cause of the Madwifi driver, and you could look
through madwifi.org/tickets for releated problem reports or subversion history
of the stable branch for suspicious commits and try hacking your way to glory.
Both these ideas are likely to end in frustration however :/

Previous versions of Madwifi will not be easy to make build with 2.6.24, in
fact a version of madwifi that built against 2.6.24 was major impetus for
releasing 0.9.4, not too many other changes snuck in.

There is also a small chance that linux 2.6.24 itself is somehow not loving
your system as it did in the past.

Thanks, Kel.