Listmates:
With 10.3, my AR5212/5213 wireless card using the madwifi driver and
wpa_supplicant I get only 50% of the signal strength that it did with
10.2. This Signal Strength Change Occurred Between openSuSE 10.2 and
10.3. Since the system is a dual boot system, I can confirm that signal
strength is still 100% normal on the dark side of my laptop.
With openSuSE 10.2 using madwifi and wpa_supplicant, signal strength was
always 100% no matter where I was in my house or office. (Both have
linksys WRT54G access points). The distances involved are 15 meters or less.
The signal strength loss occurred when I upgraded my laptop from 10.2 to
10.3. The loss is present even if I put my laptop (Toshiba P35) right in
front of the AP. (I have had the same wireless setup for over 2 years)
Whatever changed in the latest 1 or 2 releases of madwifi or wpa has
definitively caused changes to the ability of the driver to get good
signal strength. I don't know what is causing it, but I can CONFIRM the
problem with madwifi under openSuSE 10.3 with the Atheros AR5212/5213
driver on my Toshiba P35. athstats now shows crc errors that were not
there before:
[root Rankin-P35a/home/david] # athstats
379 tx management frames
88 long on-chip tx retries
345 tx frames with no ack marked
10 tx frames with an alternate rate
299 rx failed due to bad CRC
28 PHY errors
28 CCK restart
1312 periodic calibrations
1 rfgain value change
rssi of last rcv: 28
79 switched default/rx antenna
Antenna profile: [1] tx 1188 rx 24964 [2] tx 176 rx 4211
[root Rankin-P35a/home/david] # athstats ath0
input output altrate short long xretry crcerr crypt phyerr rssi rate
30621 1592 10 0 88 0 312 0 28 30 0M
Any thoughts? Anybody else seeing this in 10.3? Any help would be
appreciated.
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