From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.4.20-pre11: PCI Wavelan card loses connection
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:24:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030113172435.GC20409@bougret.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301130821.h0D8Kis26772@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:20:14AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> I bought a PCI wireless card, a DLink-520 (I think, I forgot exactly
> (it's at home), anyway, lspci dump is below).
>
> We (my father and me) made a fairly long helical aerial.
> We are trying to communicate over ~15 km with a small wireless cell.
> (~10 hosts, one AP).
>
> We can successfully associate with it, signal is weak as expected.
> But after a short while our eth0 seems to 'fall off the net'
> and while it looks like we can send packets, we see no incoming data
> at all.
>
> Since I have almost zero wireless experience, I'll be happy if someone
> with said experience can read further and say what bites us.
Personally, I never managed to get this hardware to work at
all. And Orinoco is known to have problems with PrismII cards. Please
use the HostAP or linux-wlan-ng driver.
Good luck...
Jean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-13 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-13 8:20 Denis Vlasenko
2003-01-13 17:24 ` Jean Tourrilhes [this message]
2003-01-15 8:06 ` Denis Vlasenko
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