[Bug 31857] r818x driver freezes randomly

[zonny]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31857

Comment:
I suppose this driver is broken. I've been using ndiswrapper with breezy
before. I currently made a clean install with dapper and it had this
wifi driver of it's own, but it seemd to be poor.

When I tried to log in my WEP protected network the the whole system did
freeze. I tried changing security options but it just couldn't make it.
When I logged in to text terminal and activated the wifi-connection I
saw that these drives causes kernel panic. I got my wlan working by
disabling WEP but even though the signal strength jumped between 0% to
100% on the same room in which my natbox is. With ndiswrapper the signal
strength did'nt jump like that. So I  blacklisted those wifi-card
modules which are r818x and ieee80211_rtl. And now the signal strength
and WEP-protection is handled with ndiswrapper and it works well.

The current kernel I'm using is 2.6.15-18-386. I hope you guys get this
fixed soont.  :)