WMP54G Hangs, Locks Up

Forum: Networking
Topic: WMP54G Hangs, Locks Up
started by: Lau

Posted by Lau on June 26 2006,21:29

Hi,

I'm running DSL 2.4 from the hard drive of an older computer of mine. The only issue I have been having is with my wireless PCI card, a Linksys WMP54G. I installed it using the driver suggested on the wiki: Rt2500.INF from the Linksys CD, under ndiswrapper. I used the following commands:
sudo su
ndiswrapper -i /home/dsl/drivers/Rt2500.INF
ndiswrapper -e 1814:0201 rt2500
ndiswrapper -l
(wmp54g driver present, hardware present)
iwconfig wlan0
(ip, other stats listed)
I then closed the terminal window, set up the card in the ndiswrapper control panel, and got a message saying I was connected. I copied /opt/myndis.sh into /opt/bootlocal.sh, rebooted, and everything was working.

At inopportune times, however—using Firefox, Dillo, wget, or any other program requiring internet access—the system will lock up entirely and require a reset. Next time I boot I'm asked to do a manual fsck and then reboot again to get into Linux, which is relatively time-consuming. I feel like I spend much more time booting my computer than actually using it.

I found < a post by Pepto > detailing a similar problem. Unlike this user, however, my problem doesn't happen with such regularity. (It does always occur when information is being downloaded, but sometimes happens on the first page I view, and other times I can visit several sites before the problem appears.)

Does anyone have tips on improving the stability of my card? Is there a different driver I should try, or a setting that I should change? Though my card worked under Windows, I'd rather not switch back, as DSL performs much better aside from this issue.

Thank you for any assistance or insight!

Lauren