[2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

Steve Mosher steve at openmoko.com
Mon Oct 6 01:22:34 CEST 2008


  Thanks,
    Maybe you could work with micheal to put this on the wiki.

Ed Kapitein wrote:
> Hi Mathias,
> 
> I even took it one step further.
> I can not get it to work properly on channel 11, so i set my accesspoint  to
> channel 1.
> And i changed the script a little:
>  Exec=xterm -e "ifconfig eth0 down ; iwconfig eth0 txpower off channel 0 ; 
> while killall wpa_supplicant; do echo 'Killing wpa_sup'; done ; killall
> udhcpc ; wpa_supplicant -i eth0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> -D wext -B; sleep 10; udhcpc"
> 
> Now it is working every time.
> I am using 2008.latest (081004) and a linksys WAP54G accesspoint, running 
> Firmware Version: 3.05.
> in mixed mode, broadcast enabled,  encryption WPA-Personal, passphrase
> without a space charachter in it.
> ( i am no sure if any of this matters, but it gives the settings with which
> i have it working)
> 
> 




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