iwi broken? reproducible crash :(

[Jan Henrik Sylvester]

L Campbell wrote:
 > Since you're offering -- back on 7.x I had all kinds of problem with
 > the adapter: I had to double the send/recvbuf_max and had to disable
 > bgscan, otherwise the connection would die after ~6-12 hours,
 > depending on usage. Did you ever have similar issues, or is something
 > wonky with my machine?

With iwi on 7.0, my connections would die regularly, too -- much more 
often than the 6 to 12 hours you state, sometimes up to every 15 minutes 
or so. wpa_supplicant did reconnect, but without it, I would have to do 
it manually.

It was still better than at 6.X, though, except for monitor mode, which 
would not receive packages on 7.0 at all.

Worst, sometimes the driver would get stuck, but the firmware could not 
be reloaded, since there was not enough dmaable (?) memory. Closing all 
application did help.

Since it took too much time to work around the problems and I wanted 
monitor, I got a 5 Euro ath based mini-pci from Ebay. I can only 
recommend that.

Cheers,
Jan Henrik