Stefan Sperling said: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 12:17:35AM +0400, Alexander Pakhomov wrote: > > Hi! > > ?) my usb wifi adapter probably overheated near cpu fan out > > I have a similar issue with urtwn. Working wifi is hit and miss, > and when it doesn't work the USB wifi dongle is usually very hot. > No idea why it's happening.
I have another (though probably related issue): my urtwn gets hot, and "urtwn0: device timeout" lands in dmesg. I then run "ifconfig urtwn0 down" and pull the card out of port. Sometimes (rarely) it results in lock up (I don't get to ddb prompt, which I attribute to X and Radeon KMS. Sometimes system locks up while my WiFi connection becomes too unstable, and again urtwn dongle is hot. All of this is a bit dated, as I didn't yet experience it with latest snapshot - last time it happened with snapshots from end of September of beginning of October. That said, my urtwn dongle is really tiny, and it is nearly always hot (eg. it is right now), so this may be a coincidence. Otherwise it works OK, or at least better then my previous WiFi hardware. (And better then it does under Windows, btw.) -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
