From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070530 Fedora/1.5.0.12-1.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.12 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:
Freeze occur after the card is set up with: ifconfig 192.168.1.10 up
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234685 See comment #29 Cheers!
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.
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