https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463250 Summary: madwifi on WG311T only operates when set to 802.11b mode Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: rjwilmsi@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- I've installed madwifi 11.1 64-bit packages from ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/drankinatty/openSUSE_11.1/x86_64/ as the ath5k driver didn't work for me (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463247) on opensuse 11.1 64 bit for my WG311T card. I installed the RPM packages as normal and iwlist ath0 scan showed my WEP-encrypted network. I configured the card in YAST to enter my ESSID and 128 bit hex key. On restart of network I had high packet loss and high ping times when pinging my router. Typical was up to 80% packet loss and some ping times over 10,000 ms and lots of timeouts. I found that the solution to this was to restrict the card to 802.11b speed by doing 'iwpriv ath0 mode 2'. However, on 10.3 with the madwifi packages from madwifi.org/suse/10.3 I never had to do this. This improved the result to: 50 packets transmitted, 48 received, 4% packet loss, time 49257ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 3.536/63.800/609.739/130.083 ms For comparison my Samsung Q45 laptop on the same desk as the PC has the same YAST config for its Intel wireless card, connects at 40Mb/s or more and can ping the router with 0% packet loss like this: 50 packets transmitted, 50 received, 0% packet loss, time 49212ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.789/3.957/76.822/10.867 ms Also, on Windows XP the WG311T has continued to work as before i.e. no packet loss. I submit this bug as some regression in the madwifi packages that has forced me to restrict the connection to 802.11b when I didn't have to on 10.3. Outputs: lspci | grep Atheros 01:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev01) uname -r 2.6.27.7-9-default rpm -qa | grep madwifi madwifi-kmp-default-R3878_2.6.27.7_9.1-2.1 madwifi-R3878-2.1 lsmod | grep ath ath_rate_sample 13768 1 ath_pci 260056 0 wlan 240752 5 wlan_wep,wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci ath_hal 276352 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci iwconfig ath0 ath0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Yoshitoshi" Nickname:"linux-6wie" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:18:XX:XX:XX:XX Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=1/1 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:1500-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality=30/70 Signal level=-68 dBm Noise level=-98 dBm Rx invalid nwid:941 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 ifconfig ath0 ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX inet addr:192.168.1.65 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:808268 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:377827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:585364726 (558.2 Mb) TX bytes:78799159 (75.1 Mb) [I have replaced my network key/AP/MAC with Xs.] -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.