Networking :: Another Wireless Crash.

Quote (cbagger01 @ Dec. 15 2005,13:13)

If the machine locked after firefox opened, then the problem must be with your card's ndiswrapper driver or the pcmcia card services and it is not due to your DHCP program (pump vs. dhcpcd).

You might be able to get it to work with a different driver file. Are you using the one recommended by the ndiswrapper folks?

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List

Well, I used the recommended driver and still had a lockup, immediately upon connection. I didn't even have to try fire up a browser these last times.
I installed a spare card, an Airlink that is detected with Mepis but I can't get going with ndiswrapper. I will try the recommended driver for that one later this weekend and see if I can get it going.
I can get wireless going with other distros but they are too darned slow on this old machine. Windows is much quicker but I don't want to run Windows I want to run DSL because of the usability on that old box. It's about the same speed as Windows but it won't do me any good if I can't get wireless going.

The Broadcom card using the recommended driver locks up the same with Mepis so it's not a DSL problem per-se, but as best I know, a Debian issue.

Hi, I have also had lockup/freeze with my wireless card using ndiswrapper on DSL 2.0. It was happening while I used the Dillo browser, after sucessful wireless connection.

I solved the problem last night by installing DSL version 1.3, which had been working previously. I was then able to use both Dillo and Firefox to surf the web wirelessly without problem. This seems to suggest that the issue may lie with the newer version of ndiswrapper which I think was upgraded in DSL version 2.0.

I am curious to know if this might solve your problem. Another question: would it be possible to install version 2.0 and 'downgrade' ndiswrapper. Maybe this is possible and would work.

I am using an IBM thinkpad notebook, 150Mhz, 32 Mb ram, and MSI wireless 11b MS 6802.

Incidently on the other end of the network, I set up a 'live' router using Ubuntu, after coming across the following article: http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/2483 (They refer to Knoppix rather than Ubuntu).

Strangely enough I was having this same problem while using a AMD K6 II 266Mhz laptop with a Hawking PCMCIA 802.11 a/b/g card. This card works fine in my other laptops, but not this one. The problem seemed to come up no matter what OS I installed. I tried DSL, Puppy, Vector, and even various Winblows OS's. Finally I gave up, and decide I would use that card in a PIII laptop instead, and put the PIII's Cisco Aironet 340 in the K6 II 266 laptop. About a month later I needed the Aironet 340 for something else so I tried the Hawking card once more, and it worked fine, this time running Winblows 2000. To make a long story long, I figured out that in Winblows it will work everytime in PCMCIA slot 0, but never in slot 1. Any other OS I tried it won't work in either slot. I have tried all the usual stuff that I have found in this thread. I ultimately decided I couldn't live with Winblows, so I ebayed the Hawking card. I got a few nickles for it, and threw in a couple more bucks, and got a 2 wire version of the Orinoco. So far so good.

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