Re: Help, NM breaks my wireless conection (0.3.3-1)

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 11:21 -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 09:33 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Haha, you my friend, have a prism54 card.  I often get the "kernel:
> > eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full" message using my Netgear WG511v2
> > and
> > haven't ever figured out what the deal with that is.  Could you post
> > the
> > message to the prism54 guys at prism54.org?  One way to troubleshoot
> > this might be to install 'ndiswrapper' and use the Windows drivers for
> > this card to try to isolate the problem to the driver itself under
> > Linux, or to the card.
> 
> 
> This is a chipset issue. Netgear WG511v2 use a "softmac" prism. The
> firmware in 1/3 of the size and le driver needs to do more stuff.
> 
>  http://prism54.org/pipermail/prism54-devel/2004-November/002164.html
> 
> In short, return your card. I did that and got a SMC2835W v1 (hard to
> find apparently, I was lucky) that works fine with prism54.
> 
> Hub

Hub,

I think this is the v3 you're referring to, the v1 and v2 (made in
Taiwan) both work more or less with the current prism54 drivers, but the
v3 (made in China) horribly dies.

Dan