Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 00:36, Weinzierl Stefan wrote: > > Karl Eklund schrieb: > > > Sometimes (maybe once every day) the transfer speed goes down to about > > > 12 kB/s (the connection is much faster) and it's slow to do several > > > things at the same time (for example, an SSH terminal session becomes > > > very slow if files are transferred at the same time). It is remedied > > > by pulling out the card and inserting it again. It has been going on > > > since I installed the card, with Linux versions 2.4.18, 2.4.19 and > > > 2.4.20. Is this a known problem? > > > > Yes :) > > > > You need the new Orinoco-Drivers Version 0.13, in the Kernel is still > > Version 0.11 which has the failure, you described. > > Maybe I'm seeing a different failure with my DWL-650 then. On the > strength of your post I downloaded the 0.13 drivers and patched them > into the kernel and pcmcia source trees. > > Alas, my rebuilt kernel sees the same problem as all the other kernels I > have built since the 2.4.17 one I am sticking with for now. > > I monitor the WLAN with wmwave, and immediately I do a lot of network > traffic (scp a directory full of .ogg files :-) I see the "Link" quality > rapidly approach zero and my scp session comes up stalled after a little > over 1MB. > > With previous builds (i.e. 0.11 drivers) I could extract and reinsert > the card at this point, but with these I was unlucky and got a complete > lockup. > > ...
(Sorry about late answer, but I haven't had time to experiment with this until now) I've tried installing the Orinoco drivers 0.13a (I suppose it is these: http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/). I don't know if I did anything wrong but what I did was just make/make install in the orinoco-0.13a directory. (I had a kernel source tree that was built and installed.) I had this same problem, when I started up the computer, the transfer speed was still 10kB/s, and when I pulled out the card and reinserted it again, the system stopped responding (hanged). Should the modules be deselected in the "make menuconfig" before the orinoco 0.13 is built? Does pcmcia-cs (this is the userland tools, no drivers, right?) need to be patched too? I use the Debian package of pcmcia-cs. I've also tried using 2.4.17 (without the orinoco drivers 0.13) but it works just like 2.4.20: Every time the system has started up, and only then, I have to remove the card and put it in again to make the transfer speed normal. I don't think the problem appears again when running, I just have to do this once. I haven't tried with 2.5.* yet. Had some trouble compiling it last time I tried. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
