[2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

Daniel Hedblom daniel at solle.se
Tue Sep 30 13:00:09 CEST 2008


Im also inclined to think its a hardware/driver problem and have
nothing to do with wpa_supplicant or any other highlevel stuff. I
fully understand if higher stuff is left to the community but i did
expect the kernel and low level stuff to work a bit better than now
when i bought the phone. It could ofcourse be just some phones thats
broken and most works well because of some faulty batch.

Does anyone know if work is happening on the kernel side of wifi or is
it an orphan right now needing more people?

//danielh

2008/9/30  <vasco.nevoa at sapo.pt>:
> Hi all.
> Now that you mention this, I think the problem is Hardware based.
> I've bought an Asus Eee 901 :D, and now I have a means of comparison
> in terms of WiFi reception.
> My conclusion is that the Neo FR's wifi sucks.
> Example1:
> - my home AP has WPA; sitting 2 meters away from it, the FR show 50%
> signal strength. Okay, you can say that's too close and they are
> "shouting" at each other, causing signal corruption. Very well, I take
> it 10 meters away, behind a couple of normal walls. The signal
> strength drops all the way, right down to 5%, which is pretty
> unusable. The Eee901 has 100% signal strength in the vicinity of the
> AP, and behind those walls shows 30%.
> Example2:
> - at work, the Eee901 picks up 4 weak networks, the strongest one at
> 35% strength and joins (no security) without problems. The FR picks up
> only the stronger one at 8%, and it cannot join it.
>
> This has convinced me that either the wifi on the FR has serious
> hardware problems, or the software is misguiding it. Anyway, it needs
> serious attention.
> Has anyone filed bugs on this wifi problem?
>
> Vasco.
>
> Citando Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr>:
>
>> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 11:06 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm using the Wifi-method described in
>>>
>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Wifi#Using_WPA_and_.2Fetc.2Fnetwork.2Finterfaces
>>>
>>> i.e. having a working config file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
>>> for all my known access points (which is just a copy of that I'm using
>>> daily and stable in my two FreeBSD based laptops); and I'm trying to bring
>>> up the eth0 with
>>>
>>> # ifup eth0
>>>
>>> this works very unreliable; in (let's say) 8 of 10 cases it can't
>>> associate to the AP, even not after fresh re-boots and independently if
>>> the AP at my home works with WEP or in my office with WPA;
>>
>> I found that, for WEP networking, the only working way is to manually
>> configure the interface:
>> iwconfig eth0 key <yourkeyhere>
>> iwconfig eth0 essid <yourssidhere>
>> udhcpc eth0
>>
>> And even then, it's not guaranteed to work, or if it works, it won't for
>> long.
>>
>> HTH,
>>       Xav
>>
>>
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