[driverloader] WMP54G and _big_ packet loss

[Linuxant support]

Hi,

you should take a look at the advanced settings for the NDIS driver. You can
access them through the web configurator when you click on "advanced
settings".

Sometimes, there is a parameter for the transmit power and it might not be
at 100%.

Regards,

Jean-Simon Durand
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin Schieder" <blindcoder at bingo-ev.de>
To: <driverloader at lists.linuxant.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 3:57 AM
Subject: [driverloader] WMP54G and _big_ packet loss


Hi List.

I have successfully installed the driverloader for a WMP54G card
(bcmwl5.{inf,sys}) and it works for some time (about 2-3 hours) without
problems. After that, I start to get _huge_ packet losses around 50% and
larger. The Access Point (a WRT54G with latest firmware) is standing around
15m across and one floor higher.
I'm not sure if I did everything correctly since I also get strange readings
from iwconfig:

blindcoder at crazyhorse:~/BT$ /usr/sbin/iwconfig eth0
eth0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Welcome to LVP"  Nickname:"unknown"
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: 00:06:25:D9:2C:A6  Bit Rate=36Mb/s
          Tx-Power=13 dBm
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:1/1  Signal level:-66 dBm  Noise level:-73 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I'm worried about the link quality line, and I'm not sure if this is due to
the driver, the ap the card or something entirely different.

dmesg reveales tons of these:
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

and occasionally:
eth0: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)

There is no other NIC in this machine. The machine is running ROCK Linux
2.0pre
with a 2.4.22 kernel and a handful of patches.

Has anyone an idea about what I could do?


blindy

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