[2008.9] Wifi very unreliable
vale
vales at gmx.de
Thu Oct 2 16:35:23 CEST 2008
add a sleep 500 to your loop ;)
which image / kernel are you using?
thx
vale
Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> El día Thursday, October 02, 2008 a las 06:19:30AM -0700, vale escribió:
>
>>
>> calm down,
>>
>> its a fact, that freerunners wlan is far away from optimum.
>>
>> try a wget shortly after doing ifup eth0 -> everything works
>> try wget some minutes later (no suspend/resume in between) from same
>> server
>> -> no download, even if ping still works
>> ifdown eth0, ifup eth0 -> wget works again
>>
>> same with opkg install, update, upgrade etc.
>>
>> under 2007.2, 2008.08, debian ...
>>
>> -> wlan drivers not working well
>
> I can't ACK that anymore; I have wget ten times a file of 22 MByte right
> now:
>
> # for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ; do rm file ; wget
> http://albatros/share/sisis-dev/guru/file; done
> Connecting to albatros (10.0.1.98:80)
> file 100%
> |************************************************************| 22942k
> 00:00:00 ETA
> .... (10x) ....
>
> without any kind of hick-ups;
> and the interface does not show any kind of error:
>
> root at om-gta02:~# ifconfig eth0
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:CF:8E:FC:5F
> inet addr:10.0.1.217 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::212:cfff:fe8e:fc5f/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:285483 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:121870 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:431367301 (411.3 MiB) TX bytes:9439240 (9.0 MiB)
>
> root at om-gta02:~# iwlist eth0 scan
> eth0 Scan completed :
> Cell 01 - Address: 00:04:E2:A1:76:0B
> ESSID:"santaclara"
> Mode:Master
> Frequency:2.442 GHz (Channel 7)
> Quality=16/94 Signal level=-79 dBm Noise level=-95
> dBm
> Encryption key:on
> Extra:bcn_int=100
> Extra:wpa_ie=...
>
>
> i.e. Wifi for me it works fine now;
>
> matthias
>
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