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linux-source-2.6.22 package

  1. Bug #31857
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Comment 1 for bug 31857

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zonny (johannes-kuhmonen) wrote : r818x driver causes kernel panic

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. :)