Re: [Madwifi-users] Re: Two parallel Pci's

[George S. <gs...@wl...>]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 00:32, Neilson Henriques wrote:
> Hi Amit ! :-)
> 
> I don't know exactly what (or even why) chipsets are unstable ... I have 36 APs
> running here with madwifi ... all problems that I have was due to some AMD 
> incompatibility. Everything is running fine now after changing from AMD to 
> Intel mainboards. Not my all AMD mainboards (manufactured by Asus) is
> susceptible to problems but 80% in my experience (10 boards total - 8 brokes).
> 
I use an AMD based board too!

> I was reading the Mikrotik's documentation in a beatiful day and 
> saw this: 
> 
> ... cut ... 
> Some chipsets are not stable with Atheros cards and cause radio to stop working. Via Epia, 
> MikroTik RouterBoard and systems based on Intel i815 and i845 chipsets are tested and work 
> stable with Atheros cards. There might be many other chipsets that are working stable, but 
> it has been reported that some older chipsets, and some systems based on AMD Duron CPU are 
> not stable.
> ... cut again ... 
> 
> I had all kind of problems running AMD systems (Durons and Athlons)... since self-desire 
> radios to reboots and panics... every problem gone away after change to Intel systems...
> 
> I saw the devil (believe me, I swear) with AMDs, and after all the only thing I can 
> absolutely say is: MadWiFi definitely *works* ! :-)
> 
> God bless Sam and Greg (Togg deserves to be included in this list) ... 
> 
> Hope this experience can drive your decisions in the future ... 
> 
> Cheers ! 
> Neilson

Thanks for the feedback Neilson , real storm..

Cheers,

   Sif!