Re: Airport: Tx excessive retries
On 12 Jan, this message from christophe barbe echoed through cyberspace:
> Is the problem going away if you disable encryption?
Hmmm, indeed, it seems to be much better to say the least.
Any idea why all of a sudden I can0t use encryption anymore?
BenH seemed to believe it was a firmware issue. His card with 8.70
firmware doesn't have the problem anymore.
By the way, the same problem also happens under MacOS.
Now I only need to find a MacOS X install so I can flash the card to
8.70 firmware, which is not available for MacOS 9...
Cheers
Michel
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 09:47:31PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For roughly two weeks now, I've had serious problems with the Airport
>> card in my first-gen TiBook.
>>
>> It will find the base station OK, get the 'usual' low link quality, and
>> work mostly OK (i.e. as always) for shell interactive work.
>>
>> However, any important traffic (like starting an X app) just won't work.
>> Instead, the 'Tx excessive retries' counter goes up through the roof.
>>
>> Nothing I did so far could bring the card back to normal working state.
>>
>> The next thing I'll try is go back to older kernels and see if it's a
>> driver problem. Before doing this, I wanted to check if anybody has seen
>> the same problem.
>>
>> Currently I'm running:
>>
>> pooh:~# uname -r
>> 2.4.20-ben1-airsnort
>> (i.e patched Orinoco 0.11b for Airsnort (doesn't work))
>>
>> The card's firmware:
>>
>> pooh kernel: eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.40
>>
>> Looking back through my kern.log, I found I upgraded the card's firmware
>> somewhere between the 20th and 27th of October last year. I don't think
>> I have the problem that long...
>>
>> The Airport base station (graphite) doesn't seem to be the problem; it
>> works perfectly well with a Cisco Aironet card.
>>
>> Some googling around shows that others have had the same symptoms, but
>> no definite answer.
>>
>> Thoughts, anyone?
>>
>> Thanks, and cheers
>>
>> Michel
>>
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