Is the problem going away if you disable encryption? Christophe
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 09:47:31PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: > Hi all, > > For roughly two weeks now, I've had serious problems with the Airport > card in my first-gen TiBook. > > It will find the base station OK, get the 'usual' low link quality, and > work mostly OK (i.e. as always) for shell interactive work. > > However, any important traffic (like starting an X app) just won't work. > Instead, the 'Tx excessive retries' counter goes up through the roof. > > Nothing I did so far could bring the card back to normal working state. > > The next thing I'll try is go back to older kernels and see if it's a > driver problem. Before doing this, I wanted to check if anybody has seen > the same problem. > > Currently I'm running: > > pooh:~# uname -r > 2.4.20-ben1-airsnort > (i.e patched Orinoco 0.11b for Airsnort (doesn't work)) > > The card's firmware: > > pooh kernel: eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.40 > > Looking back through my kern.log, I found I upgraded the card's firmware > somewhere between the 20th and 27th of October last year. I don't think > I have the problem that long... > > The Airport base station (graphite) doesn't seem to be the problem; it > works perfectly well with a Cisco Aironet card. > > Some googling around shows that others have had the same symptoms, but > no definite answer. > > Thoughts, anyone? > > Thanks, and cheers > > Michel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. > 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. > L-1710 Luxembourg | > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. -- Albert Einstein
