Gutsy unstable

[Mr. Obnibolongo]

Sorry for the slow reply.

The ipw3945 you described is "normal". It was one of the reasons I
migrated sooner to Hardy (didn't know, though, that iwl3945 was already
in Gutsy).

Basically sometimes I couldn't kill any more processes and wireless
connection was a no no.

But anyway, you're now using iwl3945 so you should be fine now...

-- 
Mr. Obnibolongo

Sex, 2008-04-11 às 19:39 +0000, Kenneth P. Turvey escreveu:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:23:49 -0500, Preston Kutzner wrote:
> 
> > ipw3945 is the driver for your Intel/PRO wireless card.  Apparently, the
> > slowness is a known issue for this card, as evidenced here:
> > 
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipw3945/+bug/103210
> > 
> > I'm not sure there's much you can do about it at the moment (and in fact
> > someone mentioned that the problem still exists in Hardy) other than use
> > a different wireless card.  I assume this one is built-in to your
> > computer, and therefore not much of an option. :(
> > 
> > Unfortunately, Intel doesn't make their hardware specs available to OSS
> > developers, so support either has to be reverse engineered, or a wrapper
> > for the windows drivers has to be used.
> > 
> > I'd say keep an eye on that bug for any updates to the problem.
> 
> 
> I looked at the bug report, and although this might be related, this 
> doesn't sound like the same problem I'm having.  It isn't just a slow 
> connection using my wireless card (which I've never noticed), but 
> problems with the stability of the entire system.  This is actually the 
> first time I've ever noticed that this driver was an issue.  Normally the 
> problem is with starting or stopping any running process.  I can't start 
> processes and when I kill them they become zombie processes.  
> 
> The problem may be caused by the driver mentioned, but if so, it is 
> strange that nobody mentions it in the bug report.  
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>
> 
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