Re: Airport: Tx excessive retries
Is the problem going away if you disable encryption?
Christophe
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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