Re: Airport: Tx excessive retries
That's interesting that a firmware update can fix that (and seems
logical).
I have found this page which describe a problem very similar:
http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymzh666/solaris/mss.html
By the way, I have no real trust in the wlan encryption (which AFAIK is
not very effective) and rely more on SSH, IMAPS, HTTPS and friends.
Christophe
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:03:46PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote:
> 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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