On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 03:56:43AM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > > * Once you've brought up wpa_supplicant on your wireless interface, the driver > does not know how to go back. If you kill wpa_supplicant (like when you > suspend and go somewhere else and want to connect to another WEP AP) - > congratulations, your driver is now officially hosed. You will have to: > > rmmod iwl3945 mac80211 cfg80211 arc4 ecb firmware_class && modprobe iwl3945 > > After this step succeeds, everything seems to be fine again, HOWEVER: > > * Sometimes this will go wrong. Terribly wrong. Modprobe and pdflush go hand > in > hand right into the abyss, coming back as CPU-eating undead and > unkillable zomies. Yay. Only thing that really helps is hard reset, as > working > on a 100%-devoured CPU is no fun and my kill-9-voodoo doesn't work on > neither > of the offenders.
I don't use wpa as my other interface at home doesn't support it (stupid windows only crap) and otherwise I am on public networks. But I've seen ilw3945 go terribly wrong. once in my testing modprobe -r iwl3945 brought on a kernel panic and locked the laptop up hard (truly locked). ouch. IOW, welcome to sid... ;) A
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