[Wirelessdriver-support] Re: WS/Jag/beta5.1 stability report

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I installed beta 5.1 twice, as per instructions. Mostly, WirelessConfig 
is running well. Wallstreet 266/Lucent Gold / Jaguar 10.2 / SMC 
Wireless Router. But I am experiencing the same multilingual message / 
crash as goyaboy after ejecting and re-inserting the card. A possible 
work around is to eject the card via the menu bar (trying to eject the 
card with the eject button on the Wallstreet while asleep causes the 
system to wake up.) When you want to re-insert your card do it while 
the computer is asleep. I've done this a couple of time without the 4 
language gray screen system crash.

I also encountered the extremely long gray apple hang. I used the 
"shift+function+control+power" reset, then walked away for 15-20 
minutes and my wallstreet was back to normal. It now powers up and 
restarts in semi reasonable time, around 2-3 minutes.

Thanks again for the new Beta 5.1. Also, I had the Beta 4 with 
work-arounds working before Beta 5.1.


Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:33:17 -0400
> From: goyaboy <go...@ma...>
> To: wir...@li...
> Subject: [Wirelessdriver-support] WS/Jag/beta5.1 stability report
>
> I went through the day emailing and web browsing and transferring files
> on my WS/Jag/Lucent Gold setup without mishap and then just a few
> minutes ago while unstuffing a just-downloaded file the card crashed
> the system in the same manner as when I inserted the card with beta5 (a
> 4-language "you must restart" dialog box appears and a hard restart is
> the only way out). Upon restart the WirelessConfig showed an active
> signal, but the Network IP was messed up--rather than a DHCP-assigned
> number a "self-assigned" number (it actually said "self-assigned" under
> the IP number) appeared (169.254.220.54). Needless to say, the card
> wouldn't connect with the internet despite the signal in
> WirelessConfig. So I restarted again--and then all was fine. And still
> is. I was actually surprised by the crash because everything was quite
> smooth all day. In fact, I was poised to report great stability until
> this happened (and I would still rate stability on my system quite
> good, especially since I'm operating right now with a slightly buggy
> upgraded Sonnet Crescendo G4 cpu in.)
> So, a bug or two still seems to be lurking, but if it's recoverable
> with a restart or two I can live with that until the next build. And
> again, many thanks to Rob & Co. for their fine work!
>
>
>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:24:39 -0400
> From: goyaboy <go...@ma...>
> To: wir...@li...
> Subject: [Wirelessdriver-support] From Eureka! to Ouch!
>
> Oh well...
> My earlier elation is for nought. Beta5.1 w/Lucent card on my WS
> crashed hard again and this time there seems to be no recovery--I can't
> boot back into 10.2 at all. I get an endless hang on the gray Apple. It
> doesn't seem to be a problem with the Sonnet G4 upgrade card either. I
> pulled it out, put the stock G3 back in, and no boot into Jag. It looks
> like I'm back into OS 9 and yet another clean install of Jaguar. I
> can't say for certain if this most recent issue is specific to my
> system or not, and I don't want to needlessly freak others out, but I'd
> advise caution still with beta5.1 on a WS with Jaguar. Once I get back
> up with Jaguar, I might go back to trying the beta4 tweak....
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:41:48 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] From Eureka! to Ouch!
> From: yuriwho <yu...@ma...>
> To: goyaboy <go...@ma...>, 
> <wir...@li...>
>
> Can you post the info info you find in the panic.log file in
> /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ so we can see if the WirelessDriver is 
> involved
> or if it's a CPU bug/other problem. It may be related to the 
> WirelessDriver
> but it could also be due to other issues.
>
> Y