On 7/18/07, Alexey Suslikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jurjen Oskam wrote:
> At home, I have a wireless access point which is directly connected to rl1.
> To eliminate the access point, I put a wireless PCI card in the machine,
> and configured it for hostap mode.
>
> A laptop running Linux is the wireless client. When the client associates
> with the ral0 card, the connection is established but has a packetloss of
> about 30%, and a noticeable amount of duplicate packets. When the client
> associates with the wireless access point, the connection has no packetloss
> and no duplicates. (Both tested using "ping -f", directly pinging the
> access point and the IP adress on ral0.) I've tried to rule out things
> like distance.
CAVEATS section in ral's man page.
...
The ural driver supports automatic control of the transmit speed in BSS
mode only. Therefore the use of a ural adapter in Host AP mode is dis-
couraged.
...
AFAIK, this caveat only applies to the USB ural--not the PCI ral.
Jurjen,
Have you tried setting the channel and/or forcing the mode? I also
have a ral-based AP and while it performs fairly well, its reliability
and consistency does not appear to be as good as the wi-based APs.