Bug 242411

Summary: system freeze while configuring a rt2500 wifi card with iwconfig
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jean-Jacques Sarton <jj.sarton>
Component: wireless-toolsAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Description Jean-Jacques Sarton 2007-06-04 06:30:51 UTC
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Description of problem:
The system freeze while configuring a rt2500 based wifi card with iwconfig

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F7

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. iwconfig wlan0 essid xxx; iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc; iwconfig channel 6
2.
3.

Actual Results:
the system freeze

Expected Results:
no freeze and working system

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jean-Jacques Sarton 2007-06-04 07:12:17 UTC
Freeze occur after the card is set up with:
ifconfig 192.168.1.10 up



Comment 3 Jean-Jacques Sarton 2007-06-10 11:41:29 UTC
The mentioned bug report seem to aply.

Are there source for the rt2xx modules or patches available from Fedora ?
The original can't be compiled.

According to the various reports and also my own experiences, I think that the
behaviour depend on the content of a variable which is not initialized.

The results I had was every time different, from time to time pings was
transmitted to the interfaces, on other tryes this was not the case.

freezing don't occur regulary.
 

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 12:46:16 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 01:23:43 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
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