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Jordi Molina wrote: |
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> Sorry, I forgot one thing, for the delay on the DHCP you can modify |
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> the DHCP timeout in /etc/conf.d/network or something similar (don't |
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> remember the exact file and I cannot get to my home computer to tell |
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> you the exact name) |
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> read the sample data in the file and you'll see how to reduce the DHCP |
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> timeout, i have it on 10, that is more than enough for good-working |
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> networks |
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> cheers |
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> Jordi |
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> On 4/23/05, Rob <rob@×××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>Jordi Molina wrote: |
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>>>Probably there is also an issue with the module you compiled. |
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>>>Can you post the Quality of the link when you are near the AP, the |
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>>>version of the madwifi you are using and which mask for the packages? |
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>>Hi Jordi, |
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>>Sorry for the late response. My madwifi-driver version is 0.1_pre20050224. |
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>>Far from the access point, link quality is 16/94 or -79dBm. |
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>>Much closer to the link quality is 34/94 or -61dBm. |
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>>In neither of these locations a ping to the router will work. I always |
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>>get "network unreachable" |
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>>Also, the boot hangs for quite a while at the dhcp stage. |
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>>Thanks! Rob. |
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>>>cheers |
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>>>Jordi |
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>>>On 4/18/05, Rob <rob@×××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>>Rob wrote: |
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>>>>>Jordi Molina wrote: |
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>>>>>>I'm not a guru setting up MadDriver, but at the physical layer I see |
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>>>>>>that you have: |
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>>>>>>Link Quality=16/94 |
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>>>>>>This is _very_ low, normally I won't expect success in data |
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>>>>>>transmission with a quality below 50%. |
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>>>>>>I also see that you are connected at 36 MBps, this can be due to the |
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>>>>>>low quality in signal also. |
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>>>>>>I recommend you disabling the WEP encryption until you set up the |
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>>>>>>connection correctly, just to make things easier. Then you can also |
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>>>>>>try to: |
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>>>>>>- Fix the transmit rate in Atheros config file: try first to fix it to |
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>>>>>>11M and then check the link quality. Keep increasing it until you see |
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>>>>>>that the quality decreases |
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>>>>>>- If you're using dhcp ensure that you've obtained a valid ip from the |
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>>>>>>server |
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>>>>>>That's all :) |
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>>>>>>Hope it helps you |
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>>>>>>cheers |
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>>>>>Hi Jordi, |
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>>>>>I have confirmed that my laptop works with WiFi when WEP is disabled. |
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>>>>>However, setting the transmit rate to 11mb/s didn't do anything. |
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>>>>>It does appear though, that with WEP, the laptop hangs at the DHCP |
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>>>>>stage, where it finally times out. I assume thats the first time the |
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>>>>>WiFi system attempts to send or receive data. |
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>>>>>I will try to get closer to the access point to see if it is just a |
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>>>>>problem of signal levels. However, in Windoze, I have plenty of signal. |
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>>>>>If all else fails I may try alternate means to get it running. |
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>>>>>Thanks! Rob |
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>>>>Right next to the access point I am still having problems. I think |
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>>>>there is something wrong with the WEP function. Rob. |
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Thanks to everyone for the advice. I recently found out that indeed I |
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also have an Intel PRO2100 mini-pci in my notebook, although I can't |
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get it to work even in Windoze. So there's lots of more work that could |
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be done. |
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Thanks, Rob. |
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