Comment 44 for bug 139070

Hi, same strange problems here too with default module from gutsy : link can break between 5 minutes to 24 hours later... I made a quick script that test ping and rmmods and re insmod when ping fails. This works half the times and reconnects correctly (with dhclient, and ifconfig to set up the adapter).

But half the time it doesn't make the trick : rmmod and insmod do not seem to be able to bring a correct interface. And often, a simple rmmod will freeze the entire computer.

Unplugging the adapter (which is a USB wifi dongle) and replugging it will change the effect... so if I'm stuck with rmmod and insmod beiing useless but not freezing the computer, usualy unsticking and replugging the USB wifi dongle will give me chance to ... repair the connection or to freeze the computer.

Finally, when I manage to get a connection for some period, it's quality is real bad : very very slow, pings grows up very quickly up to 2 seconds with one or two

I do not know if this helps a lot. But I've tried Tim Gardner package (which is in comment number 16), and this is WORSE : ifconfig seems stuck in a endless loop : it slows the computer down and do not manage to get past the mounting of the device (ifconfig up), this is really bad as this is set at boot time.

So I'm heading towards 2.6.24/rt2x00 recompilation...