WPC11 issues with wvlan vs orinico/hermes

[Adam Smith]

You might want to look at upgrading slackware 8.1 using the
slackware-current tree.
Its not that hard to do with the new package management system.
Help can always be found with basic Slackware tasks in the #slackware
channel in irc.openprojects.net

-----Original Message-----
From: wireless-admin at lists.samba.org
[mailto:wireless-admin at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Jason Radford
Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2002 11:20 AM
To: Jim Carter
Cc: wireless at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: WPC11 issues with wvlan vs orinico/hermes


> The first question is, who is the partner? And what mode are you 
> running in? And what is the firmware version on both?

I'm running a WAP-11 linksys access point with the WPC11 card.  The
output of iwconfig indicates "managed" mode.  The message I get when the
driver is loading for the firmware version is this

wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x8 (vendor 0) - Firmware capabilities :
0-0-0-0-0

I've not fiddled with firmware on the AP or the card, and I just
re-tested inserting the orinoco module back to test, only 12k transfers
but I dont see any errors from iwconfig/ifconfig either.

> eth1" and "ifconfig eth1", plus the relevant debug-level messages from

> your syslog on both machines, would be helpful at the beginning of 
> resolving a problem.  (For form's sake replace the WEP key with X's, 
> if used, not that people take WEP so seriously any more.)

There doesnt seem to be an error type messages when the modules are 
loading, however I might be wrong on this.  I have pasted the 
iwconfig/ifconfig output below.  I dont see any transfer errors when
running the orinoco/hermes combo, just the slowness.

Thanks for the help,

-Jason

output from wvlan_cs (which works)

eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"linksys"  Nickname:"Prism  I"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point:
00:04:5A:0E:53:C4
          Bit Rate:2Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3  
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:35/92  Signal level:-67 dBm  Noise level:-102 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:3071   Missed beacon:0

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:5A:CC:51:D7  
          inet addr:192.168.1.19  Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:729132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:426203 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:962903527 (918.2 Mb)  TX bytes:38595262 (36.8 Mb)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 

output from orinoco/Hermes (which is way to slow)


eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"linksys"  Nickname:"Prism  I"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point:
00:04:5A:0E:53:C4
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3  
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:18/92  Signal level:-84 dBm  Noise level:-149 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:5A:CC:51:D7  
          inet addr:192.168.1.19  Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1348 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2
          TX packets:1352 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:1933735 (1.8 Mb)  TX bytes:174702 (170.6 Kb)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100