From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261812AbUCGLdb (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2004 06:33:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261813AbUCGLda (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2004 06:33:30 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:30459 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261812AbUCGLcK (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2004 06:32:10 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:32:06 +0100 From: Thomas Mueller To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6 much worse than 2.4 on poor wlan reception Message-ID: <20040307113153.GA3313@tmueller.com> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040304180154.GA1893@tmueller.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key-FingerPrint: F921 8CA2 4BB6 CF07 4F5B 22FC CF8B A4C1 9570 2B3B X-Operating-System: Debian Linux K2.6.2-1-686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:2c17e390e92c60a8a0573432b44c4ce0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Jes, Jes Sorensen meinte am Friday, dem 05. March 2004: > Thomas> Kernel 2.4 works far better in the poor reception situation I > Thomas> have, anyone any idea what I could do without moving the AP or > Thomas> laptop? When I'm near my AP everything works fine with 2.6 > Thomas> too. > > Start out by forcing it to a lower link speed, at that signal quality > you really don't want to try and go above 2MBit/sec. If you keep > trying to do 11MBit/sec the card will constantly try the higher rate > and then lose signal, drop down and try again. Fixing the rate should > improve the situation - at least it has always done so for me ;-) I tried that (rate 2M auto) but that doesn't improve anything. I still loose the connection to the AP, I don't think that happens less frequent than at 11 MBit/s. -- MfG Thomas Mueller - http://www.tmueller.com for pgp key (95702B3B)