USB WLAN adapter laging down entire system
 

hi

i bought this netgear ma101 (rev.b) usb adapter some time ago and now i want to use it on my linux box
actually it's just virtual (fedora core II on vmware) with a 2.6.5 kernel

i compiled and installed the atmelwlandriver and it loads without problems
if i plug in the device now here's what happens

dmesg:
it would then lag down my entire system within just a few seconds

as i'm relatively new to linux i just wanted to ask if anyone here could help me with this

thx
cervix

Wait...are you running Linux inside of VMWare on, say, Windows?

You don't need the Atmel driver then.

i was, but i have forsaken this project and am now running on linux only again
thx anyway

MA 101 with atmelwlandriver works fine for some time.

after while i get the following message from the log..

$ dmesg | less

usb.c: registered new driver usbvnetr
usb vendor/product=864/4102
usbvnetr: driver version 2.0.1.0, compiled Dec 13 2005 16:32:06 (dbg_mask x0)
MAC addr 00:09:5B:10:21:8B firmware 1.103.2.175
.
.
CAUTION : ==> OUT OF RANGE

MA 101 with atmelwlandriver works fine for some time.

after while i get the following message from the log..

$ dmesg | less

usb.c: registered new driver usbvnetr
usb vendor/product=864/4102
usbvnetr: driver version 2.0.1.0, compiled Dec 13 2005 16:32:06 (dbg_mask x0)
MAC addr 00:09:5B:10:21:8B firmware 1.103.2.175
.
.
CAUTION : ==> OUT OF RANGE

There are rumours that kernels <2.6.11 have some usb-related bugs...

Ott