On 12 Jan, this message from christophe barbe echoed through cyberspace: > Is the problem going away if you disable encryption?
Hmmm, indeed, it seems to be much better to say the least. Any idea why all of a sudden I can0t use encryption anymore? BenH seemed to believe it was a firmware issue. His card with 8.70 firmware doesn't have the problem anymore. By the way, the same problem also happens under MacOS. Now I only need to find a MacOS X install so I can flash the card to 8.70 firmware, which is not available for MacOS 9... Cheers Michel > On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 09:47:31PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> For roughly two weeks now, I've had serious problems with the Airport >> card in my first-gen TiBook. >> >> It will find the base station OK, get the 'usual' low link quality, and >> work mostly OK (i.e. as always) for shell interactive work. >> >> However, any important traffic (like starting an X app) just won't work. >> Instead, the 'Tx excessive retries' counter goes up through the roof. >> >> Nothing I did so far could bring the card back to normal working state. >> >> The next thing I'll try is go back to older kernels and see if it's a >> driver problem. Before doing this, I wanted to check if anybody has seen >> the same problem. >> >> Currently I'm running: >> >> pooh:~# uname -r >> 2.4.20-ben1-airsnort >> (i.e patched Orinoco 0.11b for Airsnort (doesn't work)) >> >> The card's firmware: >> >> pooh kernel: eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.40 >> >> Looking back through my kern.log, I found I upgraded the card's firmware >> somewhere between the 20th and 27th of October last year. I don't think >> I have the problem that long... >> >> The Airport base station (graphite) doesn't seem to be the problem; it >> works perfectly well with a Cisco Aironet card. >> >> Some googling around shows that others have had the same symptoms, but >> no definite answer. >> >> Thoughts, anyone? >> >> Thanks, and cheers >> >> Michel >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. >> 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. >> L-1710 Luxembourg | >> email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | >> http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Christophe Barb� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E > > Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. > -- Albert Einstein > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ********************** > VIRUS CHECKED > ********************** > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
