Orinoco testing + ARM (Byte-alignment problems, it seems)

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Thu Apr 18 04:40:51 EST 2002


Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Hi, David!
> 
> 
>>>Various timeouts after slow lengthy runs:  With the .11 (testing) code,
>>>I see the -110 BAP errors using ping (not ping -f) after about 2k
>>>packets.
>>>
>>Yes, we seem to get these on quite a lot of cards - although yours
>>seems to be particularly susceptible to this bug.  I'm still working
>>on fixing this.
>>
> 
> I can reproduce this problem repliably both on i386 and ARM with two
> different cards, both using Intersil firmware.  There are no problems
> caused by ping on Symbol Spectrum cards on either architecture.  The trick
> is to use large packets.


For what it's worth, the manufacturer of the card suggested I use
the driver from linux-wlan.com.  I haven't yet tried to do that, but
will let you know what I found out.



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