ello,

Problem:

Wireless network card causes system freeze sporadically.

System:

My machine is a Toshiba Tecra 730CDT with 32MB ram and 2GB disk, with
Win98SE and all the windows update patches applied successfully.

I have a D-Link DWL-650+ Wireless 802.11b card that seems to work ok
except the machine frequently freezes up when surfing. I have found
a
repeatable scenario that causes the freeze: try to download a 27MB
file
via FTP from another machine on my LAN. Freezes every time.

Previous attempts at remediation:

Installed the latest driver for the card, version 3.0.7.

Disabled all unused COM ports in Device Manager.

Disabled all unused LAN cards in Device Manager.

Freed up all IRQs I can (IRQ3)

Tried different PCMCIA ports on the machine.

Still freezes.

Any ideas?

Thanks, very much,

Ed

<edburns@gmail.com> wrote in message
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only 32 MB of RAM. Surfing the net often means a lot of graphics!

Richard Johnson wrote:
....additionally, you need at least 300MB free space on the HD - that's
contiguous space - so after making that much available, defragment. It
might take a while if the drive has not been defragmented frequently.

Q

edburns@gmail.com wrote:
32MB RAM???!!! I'm amazed it even boots You gotta add a lot more RAM to get
98 to run well. 128MB is normally the min RAM for 98 (and higher) to run well.

TJ

edburns@gmail.com wrote:
I had a perfectly functioning wireless system with a Linksys router.
I added a DWL650 to the mix and it locked up frequently requiring
rebooting every computer on the network to get it back.

I flashed the firmware on the ROUTER and those problems went away.
mike

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Capt. 'Wild' Bill Kelso, USAAC wrote:
Not so... Win98 runs fine in 32MB, a bit slow. The more serious issue
is the HD but with adequate management the HD is OK.

Q

Thanks for all your replies. I tried manually setting the swap space
to have a 530MB maximum (ludicrous, I know, but I'll try anything at
this point) Still freezes up every time when getting a large file over
FTP.

Could it be something with the MTU?

The router is a Netgear MR814v2. There is a firmware upgrade
available, but I don't observe the problem that every computer freezes
up, only the one with the DWL-650+. In any case, I'll try the
firmware upgrade and see if that helps.

Ed

edburns@gmail.com wrote:
I lied. I have the same Netgear router. Flash the firmware.
The Linksys is on the other network. Sorry for the confusion.
mike

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Ok, I flashed the firmware on the netgear MR814v2, but I still get the
problem.

I tried setting the MAX TCP Receive to 2048 and the MTU to 1400 using
DRTCP, but still I see the problem. At this point, can someone point
me at some diagnostic tools to give me some insight into what's
happening? There are two parameters I'm investigating:

Receive Rate
Total Bytes Received

Ed

Does anyone have any more suggestions to offer on this?

Ed