Re: airo works badly

[Matteo Croce <rootkit85@yahoo.it>]

On Monday 14 May 2007 20:23:36 you wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 02:31:28AM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> > Now I get another error while ifdown && ifup again:
> >
> > airo(eth0): Max tries exceeded when issueing command
> > airo(eth0): enable_MAC: Cannot enable MAC, err=65535
> > airo(eth0): Max tries exceeded when issueing command
>
> Per our IRC conversation, it seems that this problem emerged for you
> between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17.  Please try using git-bisect to determine
> exactly which patch caused this issue for you.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John

Just before teh network goes down i notice a slowdown, i investigated and i 
discovered
that the card drops big (not _so_ big) packets:

[~]$ ping 192.168.0.2 -c 6 -s 482
PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 482(510) bytes of data.
490 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=5.65 ms
490 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=127 time=2.66 ms
490 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=127 time=2.69 ms
490 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=127 time=2.67 ms
490 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=5 ttl=127 time=2.66 ms
490 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=6 ttl=127 time=2.66 ms

--- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5021ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.663/3.169/5.659/1.115 ms
[~]$ ping 192.168.0.2 -c 6 -s 483
PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 483(511) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 5001ms

[~]$ 

Note: 192.168.0.2 is the Access point, so it is teh first node in the net.