[Bug 31857] Re: r818x driver freezes randomly

[dieguito]

To summarise:

Using r818x driver:
- Getting data works as long as the load is low, high network load produces a system freeze.
- Sending data (uploading) freezes the system
- WEP key is useless, setting it freezes the system (this worked fine before)
- -386 variant kernels allow safe uploading and downloading of data, however WEP still freezes the system and a kernel without NO_HZ is pretty useless on a laptop.

Using ndiswrapper net8180:
- Getting data works fine, no matter the load.
- Sending data doesn't work, transfers above some few Kbs get stalled forever.
- WEP key is useless, it causes a partial freeze on the system that becomes a full freeze after some seconds
- WPA state is unknown, but probably the same as WEP

Doing a summary of both lists:
- Getting data always work (ndis, r8180-386) as long as you don't put the card to high load (like torrents), a high load can take you to a freeze (r8180).
- Sending data either freezes (r8180) the system or doesn't work (ndis).
- WEP is always useless.
- Using a -386 kernel allows you to safely send and receive data (r8180), without freezes. However you are not able to use WEP anyway. ndiswrapper always stalles.

I add myself to the begging to get this fixed somehow.

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r818x driver freezes randomly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/31857
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