please remove me from the mailing list

[Jim]

please remove me from the mailing list

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pavel Roskin" <proski at gnu.org>
To: "Johnny Shih" <johnnyshih at speedymail.org>
Cc: <wireless at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: D-Link DWL-650H


> Hi, Johnny!
>
> > > I tried "testing" driver and it works after many times of restarting
> > > the card using cardctl......it looked like it receives erroneous
> > > packets occasionally.
>
> D-Link DWL-650H sometimes loses interrupts informing the driver that the
> buffer has been allocated.  In 4 in 5 cases it loses the interrupt for the
> third packet being sent.  In the remaining 1 in 5 cases it works fine.
> The orinoco driver is very sensitive to this problem - it won't send more
> data until the interrupt arrives.
>
> If the transmission queue stalls, the network level initiates a reset.
> This reset is a bit heavy-handed in the testing version.  You can try the
> driver from this distribution, it doesn't prevent resets, but the card
> recovers from missing interrupts:
>
> http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/symbol/spectrum24-0.3.5.tar.gz
>
> > > Jan, thanks for the file. Just one little thing, I am too stupid to
> > > figure out how to actually install the patch, would you mind
> > > instructing me?
>
> Run "man patch".  No need to ask it in this list.
>
> > Ok David, I think I made a mistake. It looks like to incompatibility of
> > WEP between your orinoco driver and wlan-ng's driver. After turning if
> > off, it works fine...was using 128bit encryption, 26 hexdecimal digits.
>
> WEP must be compatible.  However, using WEP can trigger bugs in the
> firmware and contribute to timeouts.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
>
>
>