I finally figured it out. Most likely the problem is with wicd-gtk client. wicd is a network manager. when i connect to a wireless network via wicd-gtk i have this problems with wrong data. i had to try wicd-curses due to problems with my x-server and voila, no problems with wireless connections anymore. this is weired though and i will do more testing. but i cant explain how a gui can cause such problems.
On 01/10/10 17:00, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 05:06 +0100, nurbs...@gmx.de wrote: > > >> Well, I don't think it's problem with your filesystem, Benoit, and >> further I still think it's problem with the driver. If I use >> ndiswrapper-module with the windows drivers I don't have this problem. I >> still get disconnected after some time but I get correct packets, >> meaning the md5sum is correct even though I have to reconnect to the >> access point and resume the download. >> > If the driver is responsible for that, then it must be something really > bad, like memory corruption. Simple accepting wrong data from the AP > won't do it. > > >> And what do you mean by using TCP to download the files? To download >> files you always have to use a protocol like http, ftp, etc. Thats one >> layer below TCP or am I missunderstanding something? >> > Yes, I meant a TCP based protocol. TCP should have enough protection > against data corruption if it works correctly, that is, there is no > memory or disk corruption. > > Some protocols, such as tftp, are UDP based and don't have such > protection, even though checksums are used on other layers. > > >> And my other question was how to debug the driver and traffic to find >> out whats going wrong. Any ideas? >> > I would try to enable most kernel debug options to find possible > corruption. > > Also, I would compare corrupt files with the correct ones by cmp. > Contiguous groups of corrupted bytes would indicate corruption by the > kernel code. Corruption in random bits would indicate a hardware issue. > > _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
