Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20-pre11: PCI Wavelan card loses connection | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:06:04 +0200 |
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On 13 January 2003 19:24, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:20:14AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > I bought a PCI wireless card, a DLink-520 (I think, I forgot > > exactly (it's at home), anyway, lspci dump is below). > > > > We (my father and me) made a fairly long helical aerial. > > We are trying to communicate over ~15 km with a small wireless > > cell. (~10 hosts, one AP). > > > > We can successfully associate with it, signal is weak as expected. > > But after a short while our eth0 seems to 'fall off the net' > > and while it looks like we can send packets, we see no incoming > > data at all. > > > > Since I have almost zero wireless experience, I'll be happy if > > someone with said experience can read further and say what bites > > us. > > Personally, I never managed to get this hardware to work at > all. And Orinoco is known to have problems with PrismII cards. Please > use the HostAP or linux-wlan-ng driver.
Count me in. I want to make it work.
It's not a Prism II, it says Prism I. It is a D-Link DWL-520 PCI card. Does that matter?
By the way, I wouldn't want to admit it, but it works much better under Win98 (ick). It cycles between "Associated: (mac addr)" and "Scanning..." for _several minutes_ before giving up. And ping is working all this time. Under Linux, average time before failure is 20 sec :(
I presume card is considering AP to be too weak and try to find a better one. There isn't any. How can I disable this reassociation or lower reassociation threshold?
At the very least, how can I see whether it is associated or scanning? Pointers to 802.1b docs? (I am googling in parallel...)
Meanwhile will download and look into HostAP. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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