Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload : regression in compat-wireless-2009-11-03

2010-10-30 Thread julien cubizolles
Le samedi 30 octobre 2010 à 06:22 +0100, Hin-Tak Leung a écrit : > That's not what I said - I said there is some evidence that the *new* minstrel > rate control algorithm doesn't work, so older kernel kernel releases work better > for some people. That's not what I experience : * with minstrel,

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload : regression in compat-wireless-2009-11-03

2010-10-29 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
julien cubizolles wrote: > Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 00:38 +0100, Hin-Tak Leung a écrit : >> julien cubizolles wrote: >>> By default, the bitrate is set to 1Mb/s. I usually set it to 48Mb/s or >>> upload is ridiculously slow. That's what I've been doing with kernel >>> 2.6.32 for a year or so.

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload : regression in compat-wireless-2009-11-03

2010-10-29 Thread julien cubizolles
Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 00:38 +0100, Hin-Tak Leung a écrit : > julien cubizolles wrote: > > By default, the bitrate is set to 1Mb/s. I usually set it to 48Mb/s or > > upload is ridiculously slow. That's what I've been doing with kernel > > 2.6.32 for a year or so. > > By default, the bitrate

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload : regression in compat-wireless-2009-11-03

2010-10-28 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
julien cubizolles wrote: > By default, the bitrate is set to 1Mb/s. I usually set it to 48Mb/s or > upload is ridiculously slow. That's what I've been doing with kernel > 2.6.32 for a year or so. By default, the bitrate is set to 1Mb/s *when you are not using your connection*. It should shift up

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload : regression in compat-wireless-2009-11-03

2010-10-28 Thread julien cubizolles
Le jeudi 28 octobre 2010 à 13:31 +0100, Hin-Tak Leung a écrit : > --- On Thu, 28/10/10, julien cubizolles wrote: > > > First : I have to manually set the bitrate like it was > > before. > > > > But the bug remains : I get deconnected after a few Mo > > uploaded. > > Overriding bitrate is probab

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload : regression in compat-wireless-2009-11-03

2010-10-28 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
--- On Thu, 28/10/10, julien cubizolles wrote: > First : I have to manually set the bitrate like it was > before. > > But the bug remains : I get deconnected after a few Mo > uploaded. Overriding bitrate is probably not advisable - why do you do that. (also, please keep the cc to the list - th

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload : regression in compat-wireless-2009-11-03

2010-10-27 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
There are two things you can try - 1) there are some anecdotal evidence that the new default minstrel rate algorithm doesn't work as good compared to the older default pid algorithm where the signal strength is low. I don't remember when the switch for the default algorithm has happened, but tha

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload

2010-02-07 Thread julien cubizolles
Le vendredi 05 février 2010 à 08:05 +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT a écrit : > I'll do more test. What TX throughput do you achieve (specifically > during ftp upload) ? What should I use to measure it ? Iperf doesn't seem to display this information. Regards, Julien. --

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload

2010-02-05 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Hmm, there are anecdotal evidence that pid works better than minstrel for mac80211-based drivers when the AP is a bit weak. Minstrel is the default from 2.6.30(31?) onwards, but you can choose pid with a module parameter in modprobe.conf - see if that helps. The details are in two bug reports on

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload

2010-02-04 Thread Benoit PAPILLAULT
julien cubizolles a écrit : > Le mercredi 03 février 2010 à 23:53 +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT a écrit : > >> julien cubizolles a écrit : >> >> What could be tried as a workaround is to comment the code that trigger >> the disconnect and see what happens. The code is located in >> net/mac8021

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload

2010-02-04 Thread julien cubizolles
Le mercredi 03 février 2010 à 23:53 +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT a écrit : > julien cubizolles a écrit : > > > > What could be tried as a workaround is to comment the code that trigger > the disconnect and see what happens. The code is located in > net/mac80211/mlme.c : comment ieee80211_set_disasso

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload

2010-02-03 Thread Benoit PAPILLAULT
julien cubizolles a écrit : > > Anybody has an idea ? Or a way to at least limit this problem. I'm > getting fed up to use a USB key to transfer files... > > Julien. > What could be tried as a workaround is to comment the code that trigger the disconnect and see what happens. The code is locat

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload

2010-02-03 Thread julien cubizolles
Le lundi 01 février 2010 à 23:36 +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT a écrit : > julien cubizolles a écrit : > > Le lundi 01 février 2010 à 18:44 +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT a écrit : > > > > > >> What is the size of your file? > >> > > around 1Go > > > > > >> Do you experiment the same issue with sc

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload

2010-02-01 Thread Benoit PAPILLAULT
julien cubizolles a écrit : > Le lundi 01 février 2010 à 18:44 +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT a écrit : > > >> What is the size of your file? >> > around 1Go > > >> Do you experiment the same issue with scp? >> > No problem with scp. > > ftp upload fails to : > * another Ubuntu machine >

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload

2010-02-01 Thread julien cubizolles
Le lundi 01 février 2010 à 18:44 +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT a écrit : > What is the size of your file? around 1Go > Do you experiment the same issue with scp? No problem with scp. ftp upload fails to : * another Ubuntu machine * a freeboxHD (video recorder running Linux) I couldn't try scp to th

Re: [zd1211-devs] Disconnection during ftp upload

2010-02-01 Thread Benoit PAPILLAULT
julien cubizolles a écrit : > I'm using the zd1211rw module from compat-wireless bleeding edge in > Ubuntu Karmic. I'm experiencing very frequent disconnections (every 10' > or so) when uploading at high speeds (200Kio/s) with the message : > > No probe response from AP 5e:42:1a:7b:55:14 after 500m