Have you run a cycle of your bouncing-ap-channel tests with maxperf? j
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:42:40 -0200, Werner Almesberger <wer...@openmoko.org> wrote: > John Sullivan wrote: >> What was happening for me is that I got a lease and could do dns lookups >> but could not ping the gateway or any other host -- there would be one >> ping attempt that did not return. > > Hmm, that's very odd. There shouldn't really be a difference between > DHCP, DNS, and ping - at least not one that goes away if you use > --power maxperf. Perhaps this depends also on time. Do DHCP and DNS > continue to work after you had ping failures ? > > It would be interesting to know what your WLAN environment looks like > (iwlist scan) and what "iwconfig eth0" says while you're experiencing > this sort of problems. Also, if you know anything about the access > point(s), such as brand or firmware, that would be useful. > > One known issue is that the AR6k sometimes tunes to the wrong > frequency for some reason, which could explain lossy communication. > > Thanks, > - Werner AND: > By the way, the problem with maxperf is that it makes WLAN burn power > like there's no tomorrow. It roughly doubles the total power consumption AND: > As I've mentioned before, telling the WLAN module not to sleep > with "wmiconfig -i eth0 --power maxperf" reportedly improves > network stability in some situations where otherwise disconnects > were frequent. (Sorry if this sounds rather vague. I don't have > much real data on this phenomenon. More details would be welcome.) -- Joel Newkirk http://jthinks.com (blog) http://newkirk.us/om (FR stuff) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
