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.

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