> I too keep wondering if there's something up with the wpi driver > recently (except the classically buggy firmware, but that's a known > issue). My thinkpad R60 came with one of these built in, and support > went from so-so to good and stayed fine for months, but now during the > last week or so it's oddly shaky again (running snapshots rougly as > they appear on the mirrors). > > Basically network performance with wpi sucks, plug in my rum (usb wifi > dongle), route flush and ifconfig+dhclient, performance is in the > useful range again. The change for the worse happened sometime within > the last week as far as I can tell. > > Compared with my rum, the wpi gets worse signal strength if I read the > ifconfig output correctly: >
Interesting Peter, you're mention of using a usb wifi adapter reminded me that I have d-link dwl-122 somewhere here, I dug it out, attempted to connect to my airport AP's only to find I wasn't able to, I then remembered that the AP's where set to run in 11g mode rather then mixed (11b/g), I made the relevant change using airport utility & everything was well, I managed to connect via my usb wifi adapter only to find that the system became on responsive if I ran ifconfig, I switched terminals ran dmesg that terminal hung aswell, I switched to another terminal & rebooted, the system went through the shutdown process by never restarted, I power cycled the box & when it booted I noticed that the wpi interface managed to connected to one of the airport base stations & obtain an ip via dhcp. I'm still unable to connect to the ral interface on my firewall though, I've tried forcing mode 11b with no success. Sevan / Venture37 _________________________________________________________________ All new Live Search at Live.com http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000006ukm/direct/01/
