firmware q2d10

[david at lang.hm]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, david at lang.hm wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote:
>
>> david at lang.hm wrote:
>>
>>> 2. I left the laptop running overnight with the screen backlight off. in
>>> the past I coul wake it up and everything would be good (including alpine
>>> remaining running and seeing new mail)
>>>
>>> this time it had disconnected from my access point and connected to mesh1,
>>> and when I tried to switch back the mouse was very flaky (a problem I have
>>> not had in the past) and the machine finally froze, after 15 min I power
>>> cycled it.
>>
>> The system firmware doesn't really have much to do with networking so I'm
>> confused if it actually made a difference.  Was the firmware the only thing
>> you changed?
>
> I upgraded to the joyride version with this firmware, couldn't reach my
> network, so rebooted to 689, repeated the process with 690, same
> WEP problem so rebooted to 689 where I had the problem reported above.
>
> as I understand it this should have left me with everything the same
> except the firmware.
>

in continuing the testing I upgraded to 1597 (I know, more variables 
changing) and had a similar problem. it disconnected from my LAN and 
connected to the mesh. I had to manually disconnect from the mesh and try 
a couple times to reconnect to the LAN before it started working, and when 
I did reconnect alpine didn't recover it's IMAP connection (I had to tell 
it to break the connection and re-establish it)

in getting  connected to my LAN again I tried, was asked to input the WEP 
data, it failed, I tried again, it failed, I tried another network it 
failed, I tried my LAN again and it worked. note that I did not have to 
enter my WEP data after the upgrade to get the initial connection.

David Lang