On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 03:02 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: > This adventure started earlier tonight when I received a long distance > call from a developer I consult for. He's been frustrated with wifi and > Linux for a long time, as many have been and still are. He was about > ready to dump 10.3 and put 'Bloze back on it his new IBM laptop, even > though he hated the idea of doing that! He has an Intel Pro chipset on > the MOB and native drivers, but as he travels from site to site, he just > hasn't been able to get consistent connects. > > He called all excited because he thinks 10.3 is going to stay on that > box! The kernel upgrade, and new drivers that were upgraded with it > APPEAR to have solved some real issues on that new IBM. He used to not > be able to easily switch between wifi and ethernet without > rebooting......just wouldn't work....now it does. Connects to a site > that has been off and on with low signal strength is NOW exceptionally > strong. Reboots of the system, physically moving around the building and > even outside the building can't kill the connection. > > So, says I - I wonder if that new kernel would help my wifi problem(s). > I hadn't upgraded yet on my laptop. I did the upgrade, and reinstalled > an NT driver under the Linuxant loader.....all compiled and ready to > test. I was only able to test here, but will test tomorrow night at a > site where I can only get a 3% signal strength and NO connection. Here I > went from 23% to 82%!! I've NEVER had that on this box at any site! > > Now, my question is, has anyone else noticed any improvement? What was > done in the new kernel to bring about all this joy and glad tidings near > Christmas? ;)
As mentioned in another mail, the signal strength may or may not reflect reality. However the kernel wireless stack has been improving, you can see Joachim Gleissner's (realjoe) description of what changed at: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071115/transcript#Networking_Guest_Speakers -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
