On 7/18/07, Alexey Suslikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jurjen Oskam wrote: > At home, I have a wireless access point which is directly connected to rl1. > To eliminate the access point, I put a wireless PCI card in the machine, > and configured it for hostap mode. > > A laptop running Linux is the wireless client. When the client associates > with the ral0 card, the connection is established but has a packetloss of > about 30%, and a noticeable amount of duplicate packets. When the client > associates with the wireless access point, the connection has no packetloss > and no duplicates. (Both tested using "ping -f", directly pinging the > access point and the IP adress on ral0.) I've tried to rule out things > like distance.CAVEATS section in ral's man page. ... The ural driver supports automatic control of the transmit speed in BSS mode only. Therefore the use of a ural adapter in Host AP mode is dis- couraged. ...
AFAIK, this caveat only applies to the USB ural--not the PCI ral. Jurjen, Have you tried setting the channel and/or forcing the mode? I also have a ral-based AP and while it performs fairly well, its reliability and consistency does not appear to be as good as the wi-based APs.
