This one time, at band camp, Jim McCloskey said: <snip success story - congratulations!> > Or at any rate it works fairly well. I get a lot of error-messages > like this: > > Tx error, status 1 (FID=00F0) > > (annoying on the console and in the log-files, but invisible in > X). This must mean that I'm getting poorer performance than I > might. But still, the basic setup is more than functional for > everything I've so far tried---web-browsing, mail, ssh connects to > other hosts, and so on (as is shown, for instance, by the fact that > I'm sending this (or will, I hope) over the wireless connection). > > I'm puzzled mainly by the sense that it shouldn't be working this > well. If I understand correctly, the D-Link DWL650 is a prism card and > is best supported by drivers made available in the linux-wlan-ng > package. In getting that package to work, though, I got stalled by the > requirement of compiling a new kernel-module, which required both the > kernel-source and the independent (non-kernel) pcmcia-cs source. My > pcmcia stuff works well at present; I've hand-compiled pcmcia source > in the past. If I can avoid doing it again, I'd like to, especially if > installing and hand-compiling it might compromise things that work > well at present. But if I thought it would stop the flow of Tx error > messages, and would improve performance, and if I thought that it > wouldn't break existing working systems, I'd certainly take this step > also. > > Thanks very much indeed to all who helped already. If anybody had any > further thoughts or advice, I'd be really grateful, I have a card that uses the orinoco_cs driver on this laptop, and I get the same kind of drop errors all the time. Some googling suggested that the linux-wlan-ng package (and related recompiles) would do me good, but as I also have a wired connection, I so far haven't tried, so I have no concrete advice to offer. It does seem that linux-wlan-ng provides better drivers than the stock kernel ones. If you want to try it out without hosing your current setup, I suppose you could try a multiple kernel image solution - booting 2.4.18 with stock kernel modules, and 2.4.19 with linux-wlan-ng modules, and see how it goes (for what it's worth, I did see some speed improvement for my card, but kirqsoftd also sometimes spins out of control under heavy use, and uses %100 CPU. Only resolvable by popping the card out and back in) Good luck, and let us (or at least me) know how it goes! Steve -- patent: A method of publicizing inventions so others can copy them.
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