[driverloader] WMP54G and _big_ packet loss

[Benjamin Schieder]

Hi List.

I have successfully installed the driverloader for a WMP54G card
(bcmwl5.{inf,sys}) and it works for some time (about 2-3 hours) without
problems. After that, I start to get _huge_ packet losses around 50% and
larger. The Access Point (a WRT54G with latest firmware) is standing around
15m across and one floor higher.
I'm not sure if I did everything correctly since I also get strange readings
from iwconfig:

blindcoder at crazyhorse:~/BT$ /usr/sbin/iwconfig eth0
eth0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Welcome to LVP"  Nickname:"unknown"
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: 00:06:25:D9:2C:A6  Bit Rate=36Mb/s   
          Tx-Power=13 dBm   
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:1/1  Signal level:-66 dBm  Noise level:-73 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I'm worried about the link quality line, and I'm not sure if this is due to
the driver, the ap the card or something entirely different.

dmesg reveales tons of these:
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

and occasionally:
eth0: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)

There is no other NIC in this machine. The machine is running ROCK Linux 2.0pre
with a 2.4.22 kernel and a handful of patches.

Has anyone an idea about what I could do?


blindy

-- 
GPG-Public Key:
http://www.crash-override.net/benjamin_schieder_key_2002-01-17.gpg
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.linuxant.com/pipermail/driverloader/attachments/20031210/1cc2d5c0/attachment.bin