Re: Severe performance problems with bcm43xx-softmac

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 17 August 2006 19:00, Larry Finger wrote: The last ping before I took this output took 333 ms. Larry larrylap:~ # cat /debug/bcm43xx/eth1/tx_status Last 100 logged xmitstatus blobs (Latest first): 0x00: cookie: 0xb182, flags: 0x01, cnt1: 0x00, cnt2: 0x01, seq:

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-18 Thread Kevin Crocker (teq)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Finger wrote: Kevin Crocker (teq) wrote: Hi, Yes, I have one of these devices in my laptop. Yes, I want to get it to work. 03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) 03:02.0

Re: Severe performance problems with bcm43xx-softmac

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 18 August 2006 13:52, Michael Buesch wrote: Hm, I don't see anything special. There's only one packet retried once, but even that succeed after the retry. I would say that's normal noise. So, what's going on there? Did you try with another card and driver, but with the same AP?

Bad/Corrupted Mac Headers

2006-08-18 Thread Clifton Watson
Hi guys, Does bcm43xx set a flag or use some statistic as an indicator for an 802.11 frame with a bad or corrupted header? I am referring to only the header and not the entire frame. Thanks. --CLW -- ** Clifton L. Watson, Ph.D.

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-18 Thread kevin
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 08:01 -0400, Kevin Crocker (teq) wrote: eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID: off/any Nickname:Broadcom 4306 Mode: Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s RTS thr: off Fragment thr:off Encryption key: off

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-18 Thread Ivan Matveich
Try this exact sequence of commands: rmmod bcm43xx modprobe bcm43xx ip route flush all ip address flush dev eth1 ip link set dev eth1 up ip address add dev eth1 local 192.168.1.2 peer 192.168.1.1 ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 iwlist eth1 scanning # This is important! It

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-18 Thread Larry Finger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 08:01 -0400, Kevin Crocker (teq) wrote: eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID: off/any Nickname:Broadcom 4306 Mode: Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s RTS thr: off Fragment thr:off

Re: Severe performance problems with bcm43xx-softmac

2006-08-18 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: On Friday 18 August 2006 13:52, Michael Buesch wrote: Hm, I don't see anything special. There's only one packet retried once, but even that succeed after the retry. I would say that's normal noise. So, what's going on there? Did you try with another card and driver, but

Re: Severe performance problems with bcm43xx-softmac

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 18 August 2006 22:05, Larry Finger wrote: I will set up a configuration that lets me capture packets in monitor mode using kismet and send you the capture file. The host I will be using is for the capture is rather low powered, so it doesn't have X, but it makes a good file server.

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-18 Thread Ivan Matveich
ip link set dev eth1 up (bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device) That is clearly a bug in your kernel's bcm43xx driver. The developers here might be interested in your dmesg log, I don't know. You might try the latest driver: git clone

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 18 August 2006 23:41, Ivan Matveich wrote: ip link set dev eth1 up (bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device) That is clearly a bug in your kernel's bcm43xx driver. The developers here might be interested in your dmesg log, I don't