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SubjectRe: NETGEAR WG111v2 (USB RTL8187): freezes whole system when setup
Thank you for reporting it.
I'm not currently working on drivers now, sorry, but I hope someone
involved in linux wireless might investigate your problem.

Thanks
Andrea

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an USB wireless card: Netgear WG111v2. It is reported in
> syslog as:
>
> usb 4-2: Product: NETGEAR WG111v2
> usb 4-2: Manufacturer: NETGEAR WG111v2
> usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 000FB5D51ECA
> phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
> phy1: hwaddr 00:0f:b5:d5:1e:ca, RTL8187vB (default) V1 + rtl8225
> usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
>
> On ifconfig up, the card always locks up two very different systems: a
> relatively modern P4 desktop and P-MMX laptop with UHCI (ancient Compaq
> Armada 1592DT) which has an OHCI.
>
> The connection is not stable and sometimes the card just stops
> talking to anything outside: the connection is not dropped, but
> nothing works (no ping replies). Up/down interface does not help.
>
> Aside from that there were no ill effects noticed.
>
> I tried 2.6.27-rc7 and -rc8 with no difference.
>
> Reported to bugzilla as
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11678
>
>


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