[sclug] Problem with USB wireless adaptor

[Pieter Claassen]

Hi,

I have a funny problem with a USB wireless adapter and a few questions:

Setup:
system: debian mixed stable and testing
pre-compiled kernel 2.4.20-5
linux-wlan-modules-2.4.20
hotpluggin un-installed
card: actiontec usb adapter

Problem:
When I shut the machine down, I get a crash. This happens if I if-down the
wlan interface and it unloads the kernel modules correctly, or when the
interface is up and I shut the machine down.
Previously, I though the problem was with hot plugging, as the crash was in
hotplug, but I removed it and now the process that creates the crash is
swapper.
Also, initially when I unplugged the usb card (actiontec with prism2_usb
driver) the machine crashed, but I find that if I if-down wlan0 the card
(after fixing the bug in /etc/network/if-post-down.d/linux-wlan-ng-post-down
that tried to unload the prism2_pci driver) then it unloads the prism2_usb
and the 80211 kernel modules and I can plug the card out.

So, here are my questions:
1. I don't want to recompile the kernel because this has to be a standard
install that I can support remotely and I can see chaos if I have to compile
kernels for individual  machines.
2. How do I see what the problem is (who do I contact about this)?
3. I would gladly consider going back a number of kernel releases, but there
are no released wlan-modules for earlier kernels and if I want to compile
them myself, then I need to compile my own kernel again.
4. Is there a way to see what a precompiled kernels configuration is?

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Pieter
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