Re: Fwd: [Gnewsense-dev] poor wireless performance and sources.list
The knetworkmanager is not so reliable sometimes, please open a terminal
and use iwlist to check the results.
Your test machines are from the 5 sent to you? The pure black ones should
not have Antenna connection problem since they are from the production
batch.
> Two test machines can't connect to wireless on Jan. 20th. Can't see the
> signal strength. - will you suggest us to check the antenna too?
>
> One test machine connected to wireless without any problem on Jan 22nd.
>
> FYI.
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:49 PM, <fxzhang@ict.ac.cn> wrote:
>
>> What is the normal signal strength reported?
>>
>> If very low, probably the antenna is not connected correctly(some test
>> machine might have such problem), you can try to open the case to check:
>> it is in the right part of palm rest; remove the 4 screws in the back,
>> then you can remove the palm-test(don't pull it too far away because
>> the
>> touchpad is connected) and find the antenna, it should be connected to
>> the
>> 'main' connector, not the 'aux').
>>
>> The wifi do have some potential connection bug, but the signal strength
>> is
>> basically ok.
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>> > fxzhang@ict.ac.cn ha scritto:
>> >> Dear sirs,
>> >> a) the wifi driver do have some issues now, we are tracing them.
>> You
>> >> can
>> >> try the latest driver(http://www.lemote.com/upfiles/wifi/*.gz, both
>> >> source and binary modules) to check whether there is improvements.
>> >
>> > I installed them but the wifi range is still very low.
>> >
>> >
>> >> b) deb http://dev.lemote.com/debian testing main should be the
>> >> repository we are using.
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>> >
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