is wifi-driver developed anymore?

Christian Rüb christian.rueb at gmx.net
Thu Aug 13 14:44:41 CEST 2009


On Thu, 2009-08-13 14:17:23 David Fokkema wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 16:06 +0400, Paul Fertser wrote:
> > David Fokkema <dfokkema at ileos.nl> writes:
> > > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 10:34 +0200, arne anka wrote:
> > >> "Especially recommended for WiFi since due to the bugs in the firmware
> > >> and the driver full power-cycle of the module is often advantageous."
> > >>
> > >> i am not quite sure, what to make from that sentence.
> > >
> > > Maybe s/advantageous/adventurous/ ? As in: cross your fingers, this
> > > will probably kill the module?
> >
> > Powercycling the module can't kill it :D
>
> Ah, no, you're right, :-P However, IIRC, there were some posts and bug
> comments somewhere that show that unloading/reloading the module can
> cause severe breakage and render wifi unusable.
>
> David

To summarise this for me:

Keeping the module loaded and just request/release it via FSO (I have a little 
GUI for this) should be pretty safe?

I am currently using it this way and wpa_supplicant's roaming capabilities 
with some minor modifications to the network scripts and it's quite reliable - 
I just have to avoid suspend though.

FYI: the roaming is the same setup as on Debian on my notebook - just on my 
SHR-U Freerunner.

Christian



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