AW: Re: Re: [ltp] T41 Atheros SuSE 9.3 Not working ?

[Vijay Garla]

Hi,

In windows, associating and getting an IP via dhcp is no problem.  In 
linux, everything works fine as long as there's just one AP around.  
With a little noise, associating or dhcp is unreliable. 

Regarding dhcp: I tried to diagnose this with tcpdump.  I see that a 
dhcp request gets sent out every minute or so (which is expected), but 
nothing comes back.

- vijay

honey@gneek.com wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, vngarla@tiscali.de wrote:
>
>> I have a t40p with suse 9.3 and an atheros a/b wlan.
>> - Associating with an AP does not work reliably in a noisy environment.
>>
>> - DHCP does not work at all in a noisy environment.
>>
>> What helps is setting the Channel with iwconfig (I generally use 
>> kinternet
>> to scan for aps, pick the one with the highest strength.  I assume 
>> you set
>> the ESSID explicitly).
>
>
> I have to say madwifi works impeccably on my T40 with atheros a/b/g
> card - I never have problems associating etc.  It's range isn't as
> good as the old b-only Cisco card I don't think, but it's pretty
> flawless.  Fedora Core 3/4 here, although I wouldn't attribute the
> difference to the distro.  I wonder what else can be different?  Does
> it work much better in Windows, Vijay?  If not or you can't test, I'd
> suggest checking the aerial's ok inside if you haven't?
>
> To the original poster: when you saw "latest" madwifi, it's
> understood that with the madwifi project this always means from CVS,
> right?  The "latest" released tarball is usually ancient.
>
> Honey