[gutsy]network-manager drops connection when transfering large files

I belive I have the same problem, when trying to update with adept the connection was dropped. My wireless card is AR5007EG which i use with ndiswrapper 1.48. Do you use ndiswrapper too?

Anytime I do a large file transfer everything locks up. The last syslog lines are as follows:
Sep 29 12:18:12 notebook NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_essid(): error getting ESSID for device eth1: Resource temporarily unavailable
Sep 29 12:18:12 notebook kernel: [ 1155.324000] ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms.
Sep 29 12:18:13 notebook kernel: [ 1155.824000] ipw3945: Error sending LEDS_CMD: time out after 500ms.
Sep 29 12:18:14 notebook NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_essid(): error getting ESSID for device eth1: Resource temporarily unavailable

Fixed by switching to iwl3945 and blacklisting ipw3945.

Can confirm this, as well as note that it not only consistently crashes during large NFS transfers, but can also drop the connection with ANY heavy network activity. Using stock 1420n from Dell upgraded to gutsy.

issue157293 is probably a duplicate of this one.

more info here: bug158045

and here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=579742

not quite the same, but possibly related, and contains some info about how to switch to iwl3945: bug 121439

And here a link to a how-to. Looks like it's written by Matthew Specker, who originated this bug report ;)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=595060

Sweet, that how-to worked fine for me. I'm up on running on iwl3945. Time will tell if it proves more stable than ipw3945. Thanks Matt!

Ok, tested the iwl3945 driver for the day. Seems to work great! No problems yet. Speed is good, about 1.2 MB/s at peak, maybe a bit better.

iwl3945 has been working flawlessly for me. The ipw3945 was causing so many issues it was worthless for anything more then simple web browsing.

I might mention that i was running ndiswrapper earlier and have now switched to madwifi, and that made all my problems disappear, what drivers where you guys using?

Hi there
do you still experience this issue with the current version of the application?, could you please try to reproduce this using the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron.

Thanks in advance

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