rt73 disconnects and crashes usb
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Background
I have an averatec 2370 laptop which has the Ralink rt73 wireless chipset connected through some kind of internal usb bus.
with edgy and feisty I used ndiswrapper because the linux ralink drivers didn't work well for me.
I installed gutsy with tribe 5 and was very impressed. The wireless worked out of the box and the detected my screen correctly and after selecting the nvidia restricted driver suspend works on this laptop (I can't think of anything that doesn't as of gutsy).
I noticed some times my network will just quit working and won't reconnect even if i plug it into a cable nothing works and I have to reboot.
Here is the weirdest thing though if I just select reboot most of the time when it reboots it won't even see that a wireless card exists even if I reboot directly into feisty still nothing I usually have to turn off wait a few seconds and turn back on
sometimes if I run lsusb after it quits working lsusb just hangs and shows nothing
I have tried to reproduce this but I can't consistently reproduce it. Sometimes it happens quick, sometimes after 30 min, sometimes after 1hour, and sometimes I turn off my computer before it happens. I'm sure if I left in on long enough it would eventually happen.
I've waited this long to report it to see if I could reproduce it but I can't so I had to get it reported before the release
this really is a show stopper for me on what is other wise a great release for this laptop
Oh I forgot to mention I didn't know whether this was a kerne bug or a network manager bug or what so I put don't know