Re: Problem with wireless card

To: Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>
Cc: Riccardo Gusso <grick@tiscalinet.it>, Debian Laptop List <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with wireless card
From: Martin Hermanowski <martin@martin.mh57.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:04:31 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 20021209210431.GI29073@martin.mh57.net>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 1039295475.15386.2190.camel@kant.mcmillan.net.nz>
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On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 10:11:15AM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 04:31, Martin Hermanowski wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:26:40PM +0100, Riccardo Gusso wrote:
>>> I have a strange problem with my wireless pcmcia card ZyAir b -100.
>>> I am using this confugration for it in /etc/pcmcia/config:
>>> 
>>> card "Zyxel ZyAir B-100"
>>>   manfid 0x0274, 0x1613
>>>   bind "orinoco_cs"
>>> 
>>> The card works, but sometimes it hangs up and I receive this message in 
>>> console:
>>> eth1: Error -110 writing TX descricptor to BAP
>> 
>> My card (prism2.5 mini_pci in a TP A30) has the same problem. It happens
>> when I tranfer much data.
>> 
>> As I do not have problems using an other prism2 card (from SMC), I
>> suspect this is a firmware problem. I posted the same question to the
>> linux-wlan list but got no reply :-|
>> 
>> What does the driver say about the firmware?
>> | kernel: eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.03
> 
> I see the same problem with kernels more recent than 2.4.17 with my
> D-Link DWL-650.
> 
> This card is likewise recognised as "eth1: Looks like an Intersil
> firmware version 1.03".
> 
> As a result I have remained on 2.4.17 for some time now...
> 
> I have seen a suggestion elsewhere that it is possible to burn new
> firmware into these cards, and that the DWL-650 (and possibly others)
> have crappy firmware.

I am now using a newer version of the orinoco driver, and I get far less
problems. I attached a mail I read in debian-user.

I also noticed that the card likes to die when I use Ad-Hoc, FWIW.

Regards,
Martin

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Subject: Re: DWL-650 Wireless NIC
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On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:56:05PM +0100, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
> Am 08.12.2002 um 12:32 schrieb Tom Allison:
>=20
> > Now I am looking at an Orinoco WAP.  Wireless connectivity (signal=20
> > strength and reported speed) is excellent, better than the D-Link.
> > But there's no sustainable throughput.  If I try to download=20
> > anything like a medium sized web page, or open email and ssh, the=20
> > [..]
> > Is this a problem of brand mixing on 802.11b products or is there=20
> > something wrong with the DWL-650 card?  I am unable to return to=20
> > the D-Link router for testing as I no longer have it with me.
>=20
> Do you use the in-kernel orinoco driver? I've had similar
> problems with that one.  The more recent orinoco-0.13beta1
> from http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd works for me!

I also tried the 0.13beta1, and it really works ;-)

No the card dies after transmitting 1GiB, that it is an increase of
10'000%!

I am happy.

Regards,
Martin

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