Hummm....
I've been playing about with the DSE dongle which has a RA2570 chip in
it. So far (touch wood) seems very stable, thou I'm yet to do much real
testing.
Robert Fisher wrote:
[3] the specific advice for bcm43xx is to flag it and use ndiswrapper,
Actually the ndiswrapper turned out to be more of a 'crapper' for me.
However Mepis showed up what I was missing for that one...
Something else interesting thou, is the work on the wireless tools is
moving forward. I noticed that iwconfig is now presenting more info.
I read the code behind the wifi stuff and it's got a way to go to
mature... but I believe it's getting there.
for zd1211 is to download and compile a more recent driver version.
Now you're scaring me because I think that's the chip in the one from
CDL, thou they ship with a driver for Debian on the CD :) - I'll be
supporting that hwd supplier: www.edimax.com.tw
pinging www.ihug.co.nz seems slow (~100Ms)
Have you done a iwlist scan ?
What else is on the same channel?
Also what sig stregnth are you getting in iwconfig?
What does /proc/wireless say?
I thought Volker might be onto something when he suggested (for another
problem) too many USB devices - it seemed to be OK when I tried it this
morning for a feww minutes.
Is the usb 1.1 or 2 on the laptop?
Neil and I found a few problems with wifi cards on his laptop that
didn't happen on my sony.
His machine is 2, the sony is 1.1
(It was working fine on Windows 2000)
And you know that how?... I agree that windows take on wifi is far more
robust, thou I suspect that this is due to far more error checking.
> Where to from here?
Well I'll be looking at this wifi dongle I've got next week, so if I can
team up and help out I'm all willing.
Cheers Don
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