On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 18:29, W.D.McKinney wrote:

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 14:11, Josh Poage wrote:

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Hi all,

My wireless connection keeps falling apart. Up, down, up, down, ad infinitum, no discernable pattern. The signal is fine according to Kwifimanager(and it was stable under windows). I am using SuSE 9.0, a Linksys WPC11 v.3 wireless card and a Linksys router. These messages are appearing in /var/log/messages:

Dec 17 17:04:48 feanor kernel: prism2sta_mlmerequest: Failed to read

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wlan0 statistics: error=-61 Dec 17 17:04:48 feanor kernel: wlan0 (WE) : Buffer for request 8B1B too small (0<6) Dec 17 17:04:48 feanor kernel: prism2sta_mlmerequest: Failed to read wlan0 statistics: error=-61 Dec 17 17:04:48 feanor kernel: wlan0 (WE) : Buffer for request 8B1B too small (0<6) Dec 17 17:04:48 feanor kernel: prism2sta_mlmerequest: Failed to read wlan0 statistics: error=-61 Dec 17 17:04:48 feanor kernel: wlan0 (WE) : Buffer for request 8B1B too small (0<6) Dec 17 17:04:48 feanor kernel: prism2sta_mlmerequest: Failed to read wlan0 statistics: error=-61 Dec 17 17:04:48 feanor kernel: wlan0 (WE) : Buffer for request 8B1B too small (0<6) Dec 17 17:04:48 feanor kernel: prism2sta_mlmerequest: Failed to read wlan0 statistics: error=-61 Dec 17 17:04:49 feanor kernel: prism2sta_mlmerequest: Failed to read wlan0 statistics: error=-61 Dec 17 17:04:49 feanor kernel: wlan0 (WE) : Buffer for request 8B1B too small (0<6)

and so on. there are a LOT of these. It looks to me like the connection is crashing due to some kind of buffer overflow...is there a setting i need to increase, or something? What else should I

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look at?

Thanks! Josh

Let's see are using a wireless phone in the 2.4g range also ? etc., etc.

Dee

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Yes, but it normally doesn't interfere except in a certain

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configuration (i.e., off the cradle and held directly next to the wireless card, and then only when it happens to pick the right channel). I've had this wireless network going for quite a while under Windows and worked out all the external bugs months ago. The one p>ossibility is that my neighbor's wireless is interfering, but we keep our channels at opposite ends and have never had any trouble. I am pretty sure this is a software problem. If any doubt remains, the connection drops at the same rate no matter what channel is set on the router. </snip> Have you tried switching from the prism2 drivers to the ornioco? I had a lot of problems with my linksys card not working with prism2 (in particular the cardmgr freezing up when trying to use those drivers..) but working quite well with the orinoco. HTH!

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