Re: wireless, packet loss
I've got the same situation - different card (it's a Belkin) but same
module, same errors, same (lack of) performance problem. It hasn't caused
any problem for me in the roughly 6 months I've been using it.
ap
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I recently got a Lucent Orinoco Gold wireless card for my laptop. At
> home, it connects through a LinkSys 900 WAP. I'm using the orinoco_cs
> driver (plus associated kernel modules). The kernel is a hand-compiled
> version of 2.4.18:
>
> Linux lapdog 2.4.18 #2 Tue Jan 28 23:44:35 PST 2003 i686 Intel(R)
> Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> The system is Debian testing, up to date.
>
> lsmod reveals:
>
> radeon 86368 1
> orinoco_cs 4264 1
> orinoco 29224 0 [orinoco_cs]
> hermes 3332 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco]
> hid 12488 0 (unused)
> ds 6408 1 [orinoco_cs]
> yenta_socket 8352 1
> pcmcia_core 38624 0 [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
> usb-uhci 20940 0 (unused)
> usbcore 48096 1 [hid usb-uhci]
> agpgart 15464 3
> i810_audio 19912 0
> soundcore 3460 2 [i810_audio]
> ac97_codec 9288 0 [i810_audio]
> sg 27868 0 (unused)
> ide-scsi 7312 0
> scsi_mod 56908 2 [sg ide-scsi]
> 8139too 13000 0 (unused)
>
> Subjectively, I'm pleased with the performance---download speeds and
> connectivity speeds in general don't seem that different from what I
> get from the gateway/firewall machine directly.
>
> However, in the logs there are loads and loads of messages like this:
>
> Mar 20 21:06:16 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01ED)
> Mar 20 21:06:17 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01D9)
> Mar 20 21:06:33 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01B1)
> Mar 20 21:06:34 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=019D)
> Mar 20 21:06:36 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=0175)
> Mar 20 21:06:42 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=0161)
> Mar 20 21:07:06 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01C5)
> Mar 20 21:07:07 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01B1)
> Mar 20 21:08:50 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01ED)
> Mar 20 21:08:51 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01C5)
> Mar 20 21:08:52 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01B1)
> Mar 20 21:08:58 lapdog kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=0189)
>
> They come every couple of minutes.
>
> Is this just routine and to be lived with? Or are there things I could
> tweak to eliminate this apparent problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
>
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