09.11.2013, 01:42, "Dmitrij D. Czarkoff" <czark...@gmail.com>:
> Stefan Sperling said:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 12:17:35AM +0400, Alexander Pakhomov wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> ?) my usb wifi adapter probably overheated near cpu fan out
>> I have a similar issue with urtwn. Working wifi is hit and miss,
>> and when it doesn't work the USB wifi dongle is usually very hot.
>> No idea why it's happening.
>
> I have another (though probably related issue): my urtwn gets hot, and
> "urtwn0: device timeout" lands in dmesg. I then run "ifconfig urtwn0
> down" and pull the card out of port. Sometimes (rarely) it results in
> lock up (I don't get to ddb prompt, which I attribute to X and Radeon
> KMS.
>
I was in ttyC0 while pulling of dongle.
> Sometimes system locks up while my WiFi connection becomes too unstable,
> and again urtwn dongle is hot.
>
> All of this is a bit dated, as I didn't yet experience it with latest
> snapshot - last time it happened with snapshots from end of September of
> beginning of October.
>
I use 5.4 release.
> That said, my urtwn dongle is really tiny, and it is nearly always hot
> (eg. it is right now), so this may be a coincidence. Otherwise it works
> OK, or at least better then my previous WiFi hardware. (And better then
> it does under Windows, btw.)
>
> --
> Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
