[driverloader] Interference between non-overlap channels?

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

on some systems with wireless cards based on the Broadcom chipset, a few 
users have reported that the 'Invalid Misc' value in the output of the 
'iwconfig' is increasing quite rapidly. So far, this known problem 
doesn't seem to be harmful for a common usage of DriverLoader.

Since this is a throughput problem, it is possible that DriverLoader is 
not the source of the problem. Did you tried with a similar setup but 
under Windows to see if you have the same problem?

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com



Chris Ma wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have setup 4 wireless network cards on 3 computers, i.e. two
> computers each have one wireless NIC (say A and B), and one computer
> with 2 wireless NICs (say C). I would like to form 2 wireless networks
> (i.e. A-C and B-C) using the NICs for testing purpose.
> 
> I found that even though I set the channels of the two networks to be
> 1 and 11, which are supposed to be having no overlap in frequency, the
> total throughput of the two networks is just roughly the same as a
> singular one, i.e. it looks as if the two networks are sharing the
> same channel which is not true.
> 
> It is also found that the "Invalid misc" in "iwconfig" increases quickly.
> 
> I am using Linux Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.stk16,
> and the NICs are all Buffalo WLI2-PCI-G54 using bcm4306kfb chip.
> 
> Are there any settings I have missed to cause this problem?
> 
> Thank you for any suggestions.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris
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