I've freshly installed Debian Sarge (now stable) on a Dell Lattitude CPiR (P-II-400). with a Dell Truemobile 1150 802.11b PCMCIA wifi card. This is a rebadged Orinoco Card. The base station is a Netgear MR814V2 with updated firmware.
I apt-get'ed up to the 2.6 kernel. I get really slow performance with the wifi network. Downloading off the web is ~ 150 kbits/sec, and network behaviour is so slow that running remote X applications from other machines on my home network is really painful, with glacial updates. iwconfig indicates normal behaviour. Curiously, I have been unable to change the channel on my card. Then I can hot-swap to a wired Linksys 10/100Mb card, and everything is normal. Speed is what would be expected, and remote X is no problem. I've tried turning off WEP, but observe no difference. This is with a static network assignment. I had some earlier problems with nameservers when I was hotplugging, I think the resolvconf package cleared that up. I have no problems with making connections, but making connections quickly and download data rate are poor. In a previous incarnation, this wifi card worked fine on this laptop with Mandrake Linux (9.1). I assume if I dual boot over to windows 98 it will be fine as well. I'd be interested in hearing of others' experiences on this kernel with orinoco cards, or suggestions for other easily available models that are well supported. It looks like hotplug loads orinoco, orinoco_cs, and hermes modules when the card is plugged in. At somepoint I downloaded kismet, but I never set it up. Could that be implicated somehow? Thanks -- Robert Neff robert at neffs dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
