Currently I have a very low and unreliable wireless connection. So after a while my connection drops and I need to restart the network card to re-aquire an ip. I am not sure if this is all releated, but after about 4 hours or more using the network my pc freezes, this doesn't occur in version 0.12 of ndiswrapper with the same card. I am using vanilla kernel 2.6.11.10. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up a crappy wireless network 2. Restart the interface a bunch of times 3. repeat 4 hours or more Actual Results: system froze Expected Results: not froze I've had another bug with my card and the 1.x version of ndiswrapper, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79995 , so I may just have a faulty card. I am not using ndiswrapper anymore since acx100 supports my card without any problems. Anyone have any ideas on how to get some usefull debug information out of a system freeze?
It's an issue with the Windows drivers. You basically have to keep trying different versions. the newer NDISwrappers use more info from the Windows drivers, which is now allowing them to allocate more mem. So lemme get this straight. You're reporting an issue with ndiswrapper, but not using it?
I used to use it untill i realized that acx100 supports my card. A bug is still a bug :)
well i got a stronger network now, and i don't see any lockups with ndiswrapper, which unfortunately i have to use anyways since it seems the acx100 modules do not work that well at all. I am still interested in figuring out whats causing the lockup, i can reproduce it pretty easily, any ideas on how i can grab some usefull information out of it? after my box locks up i cant ssh into it, or do anything besides a hard reboot.
Upstream might have this fixed. However, always remember the following msg from upstream... If you are using 2.6 kernels, make sure 4K stacks are not used i.e., disable CONFIG_4KSTACKS. On the Webpage of the commercial Linuxant Driverloader I found the information that even with 8kb (i.e., 4k off) the system may freeze because some Windows-Drivers in particular for the Intel BG 2200 needs 12kb. On their Webpage they are offering a 12k patch for the 2.6.7-kernel. Note that Fedora kernels actually disable this option, so you won't see it in kernel configuration, so if you are using Fedora kernel, you should either get the patch from Linuxant or compile a vanilla kernel without 4K stacks. Either way, test with ndiswrapper 1.2 and report back.
