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

[Bill Wohler]

Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> wrote:

> 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 :/

Will do. In the worst case, I'll also continue to try again with new
kernel and madwifi versions as they become available and will report
back if there is any change. I suspect that this behavior will go away
on its own in the future :-).

> 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.

I discovered that!

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

Perhaps, which is a pity since it fixed another problem I had been
seeing from 2.6.19-2.6.22--it works with gpsbabel's usb: driver.

Thanks for the feedback, and for maintaining this package!

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Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>  http://www.newt.com/wohler/  GnuPG ID:610BD9AD