[Bug 463250] New: madwifi on WG311T only operates when set to 802.11b mode
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.
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though I hope that ticket won't mean this bug is closed before my issue is fixed, whatever the cause/solution.
Hmm, ok, let's leave this bug open but nevertheless I'd like to concentrate on fixing ath5k instead of madwifi as it is the default driver for your card. Could you please attach the requested information in bnc#463247? Thanks. -- 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.
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