Goran Ristic >Hi Brendan! > >On Wed, 03 Jul 2002, Brendan J Simon wrote: > >|> Try the debian-powerpc lists. They might be able to help you too since >|> an Apple Airport is in use. I've used a PowerBook with debian and had > >Since in both devices (my i8k and the airport) orinoco cards are used, I >thought, I'm on the right place. ;) > >|> link speeds of 1 and 2 Mbps with Airport & Airport BaseStation (at least >|> thats what iwconfig showed). > >iwconfig shows me the rates from 1MB up to 11MBs. Depending on the >distance to the airport. - This seems to work correctly. >Anyway, that is brutto, netto it should be about 1MB/s when I'm near to >the router. >(Right now, I am in basement with five walls between me and the router; >and this is the output of iwconfig: > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452GHz Access Point: > Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:3/3 > Link Quality:13/92 Signal level:-83 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm > >on the ground-floor - three walls between: > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452GHz Access Point: > Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:3/3 > Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:2347 B > Link Quality:17/92 Signal level:-79 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm > >As you can see, the Bit Rate works correctly. >Even when I'm close to the router, the Link Quality is never better >then 50/92.) > > The best I ever seen even when the hack version is about 75 so don't feel bad... it should get way more then 200K are you sure the get a fast enought server on the other end able to send faster then 200k? If the card show you 11Mb/s whilch mean ( as I understand ) the card is receving 100k+ package per second... but it can still max out but other reason.
>Yesterday I tried to compile the new pcmcia-cs from sourceforge. >Unfortunately the new package isn't working. It compiles without errors, >but when I stick the card into the dell, I get errors and the module >orinoco_cs won't load. >(card services don't match). >I also upgraded the nessesary debian-packages. - Without any change in >behavior. > Did you compile with the right kernel-source that you are using? > > Good Luck Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
