Aironet 340 Accesspoint & Prism2 cards

[David Mohr]

Hi,
setting the rate to 2M didn't help at all, exactly the same picture (also 
tried setting the "ensure compatibility with 2m/sec clients" option on the 
accesspoint, no change).
Here is the output from the syslog, I don't know what that tx error exactly 
means but since it only was ouputed three times while I was transfering 
data for about a minute at a 1kb/s rate and it didn't occur on a 2nd test 
run, it does not seem to make much of a difference.
I have read that some wireless firmwares are buggy but on the d-link 
website I couldn't find any update.

-----------------------syslog---------------------------------
Mar 10 13:27:15 skyeagle kernel: orinoco.c 0.10 (David Gibson 
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Mar 10 13:27:15 skyeagle kernel: orinoco_cs.c 0.10 (David Gibson 
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Mar 10 13:27:15 skyeagle kernel: eth1: Station identity 001f:0004:0001:0003
Mar 10 13:27:15 skyeagle kernel: eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware 
version 1.03
Mar 10 13:27:15 skyeagle kernel: eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
Mar 10 13:27:15 skyeagle kernel: eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode 
supported
Mar 10 13:27:15 skyeagle kernel: eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
Mar 10 13:27:15 skyeagle kernel: eth1: MAC address 00:05:5D:D9:E6:4B
Mar 10 13:27:15 skyeagle kernel: eth1: Station name "Prism  I"
Mar 10 13:27:15 skyeagle kernel: eth1: ready
Mar 10 13:27:15 skyeagle kernel: eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 
0x0100-0x013f
Mar 10 13:27:15 skyeagle cardmgr[193]: executing: './network start eth1'
Mar 10 13:27:37 skyeagle kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=0215)
Mar 10 13:29:46 skyeagle kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=0127)
Mar 10 13:30:04 skyeagle kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=0211)
-----------------------------------------------------------

Bye,
David

--On Samstag, März 09, 2002 14:38:24 -0700 Ben Greear 
<greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:

> Try setting your speed to fixed 2M, with a command
> similar to:
> iwconfig eth1 rate 2M
>
> (read the man page for iwconfig if that doesn't work).
>
> Also, check /var/log/messages for error messages from the
> driver...
>
>
>
> David Mohr wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have the following problem: I have a cisco aironet 340 accesspoint and
>> several wlan cards: cisco, dlink, netgear and orinoco. The problem is,
>> under linux I only get the cisco and the orinoco card to work with the
>> accesspoint at full speed. The other two cards, both with prism2 chipset
>> I believe, find the accesspoint, I get a connection and I even can
>> transfer data - at a freaking rate of 500b/s.
>> I tried it with and without wep, have set the "non aironet clients"
>> option at the accesspoint and am using kernel 2.4.18. I even tried the
>> new 0.10 version of the orinoco drivers but it still does not work. The
>> funny thing is that under windows it works fine, so I think this is a
>> driver problem. Is it just that the prism2 cards are not that well
>> supported under linux yet? I'm pretty new to wireless stuff so I have
>> very little overview about the development.
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Bye,
>> David



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