Slow Orinoco Wifi on Sarge

2005-10-06 Thread Robert Neff
Nothing like following up to your own post... I went back and did try the laptop with windows -- STILL SLOW. I swapped in an earlier version of the access point (Netgear MR814). IT WORKS. Upload and download speeds at 5-6 Mb/sec, possibly limited by WEP on access point?? Slow CPU?? I don't ca

Slow Orinoco Wifi on Sarge

2005-10-05 Thread Robert Neff
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 performa