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#1 2008-10-01 13:48:15
- jefe
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Using Ndiswrapper completely hangs system.
Hi. I've got strange issue with ndiswrapper, which I met only on Arch. Whlie using my wifi Broadcom with ndiswrapper, my systems is logging to the net without oproblem, but after minute or ax ten, if freezes. When I started using b43 with firmware instead ndiswrapper, everything is ok. Or at least almost. I'm asking you to help with solving the ndiswrapper problem because when I use b43 my net connection is really sloooow, much slower than it used to be, although it has better range, so I'd be happy if not forced to use this module.
Looking at logs when using ndiswrapper gave me no additional info.
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#2 2008-10-01 13:54:52
- wonder
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Re: Using Ndiswrapper completely hangs system.
how slow?
for be b43 has the same performance as in windows. i'm downloading with almost 3mb/s
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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#3 2008-10-01 13:59:22
- iphitus
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Re: Using Ndiswrapper completely hangs system.
try a different windows driver, otherwise *shrug*, that's what ndiswrapper is like.
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#4 2008-10-02 13:30:18
- jefe
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Re: Using Ndiswrapper completely hangs system.
Well, I understand tjat for most of geeks ndiswrapper is a dirty hack, but in my case it's working, my wifi works as under Windows. Actually, I can start torrent app, pacman, view websites and evereything runs smoothly, transfer is up to 2MB/s, when with b43 in the same situation apps download data really slow, maximum transfer is 1MB/s, and I'm forced to choose, whether I want to use pacman or torrent.
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#5 2008-10-02 14:03:46
- Hohoho
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Re: Using Ndiswrapper completely hangs system.
Try rolling back to ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper-utils 1.52, solved the hanging for me.
You can do it using ABS, just edit the PKGBUILDS.
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#6 2008-10-02 14:38:42
- jefe
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Re: Using Ndiswrapper completely hangs system.
Yeah, that's it! Thanks for remanding about the ABS, completely forgot aboust it.
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