Wireless packet loss - The Solution

[Thomas Nyman <thomas@teg.pp.se>]

Hi,

Havent really received any replies to this post, however i must let 
everyone know what the problem was.

Basically it was a matter of massive cerebral hemorraging - my brain 
actually. In /etc/pcmcia/conf I had a faulty bind for my card..it was 
binding to a non existent device...I had seen that error message but didnt 
think it mattered - geez how dumb can i be - anyway, I rectified the matter 
and the error messages have disappeared and my connection is reasonably 
fast.

Have a nice weekend all.

Thomas


--On Thursday, May 01, 2003 08:53:33 +0200 Thomas Nyman <thomas@teg.pp.se> 
wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> For those with good recall you may recall my earlier postings.
>
> I have a belkin wireless pcmcia card and a netgear me102 accesspoint
> (with latest firmware for 128 wep).
>
> I keep getting various errors and major packet loss  when using my
> wireless connection.
>
> error messages
> kernel: Tx error, status 4 (FID=010F)
> kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> kernel: eth1: Tx timeout! Resetting card.
> kernel: eth1: Unknown Rx error (0x3). Frame dropped
> kernel: eth1 Undecryptable frame on Rx. Frame dropped.
>
> the last error message i can guess at but the rest I'm unsure
> off...however regardless of the reason or meaning of the error messages i
> can notice that wehn i ping a machine on the local network i have a
> packet loss of between n40 and 60 % which is entirely unacceptable.
>
> I would appreciate any info and i would especially appreciate hearing
> from someone who uses Netgear AP ME102
>
> Secondly, i am beginning to suspect that iwconfig does not write the
> encryption key in correct format ...anyway, if i have a encryption key of
> say 12-78-36-73-15 how can i manually translate it into hex format?
> (always assuming hex is a correct format?)
>
> Thomas
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