I don't have any issues disconnecting from the wireless interface. I use a Lucent Orrinoco Silver card and a SMC access point. This is under 2.4.18 using the orrinoco_cs driver. I imagine the issue is with your cards firmware and/or the firmware of your AP
robin out On Sun, 19 May 2002 22:07:10 -0400 (EDT) cyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get similar issues - interesting of note, however - is I tried switching > to a belkin 'wireless notebook network card' and had basically the same > problems. My access point (at home) is the dlink 713p, which I expect is > the cause of my problems (and perhaps yours) because I *don't* have these > problems at work (early run airport with upgraded firmware). > > Interestingly enough, however, is that I don't believe the problem is the > actual transfer - because on lan transfers I rarely lose the wireless > connectivity, I expect it's the traditional "too many collisions, > shutting down this port" from the switches perspective (you get the same > issue if you jack a 10baseT hub into a 10/100baseT switch and do large > transfers, the switch just shuts the port off until its power cycled. I > expect the lan transfers go off without a hitch and there's less air > traffic or resent packets. Come to think - the lan transfers are normally > copying from the laptop (wireless) to a wired host - whereas the internet > transfers are copying to the laptop - so there would just be ACK's coming > back down the air on the LAN stuff. > > Aww hell, I'm just rambling now - hope this helps you some though. I pray > daily for firmware updates for my AP to fix this. > > P.S. - anyone get disconnects a *lot* with their wireless? I idle on IRC > and I'll get disconnected easily 6-10 times throughout a day. [not the > internet connection, as a wired machine doesn't experience the same > disco's] > > -Martin N. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
