Prism, Cacko 2.5 And Wifi Problems

[DeathWolf]

Hello all,
I have bought a dcf-660W for my z running cacko 1.23.
First it wouldnt work so i reflashed it to this:

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# hostap_diag  wlan0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'

NICID: id=0x800c v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) PCMCIA (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1
STAID: id=0x001f v1.8.4 (station firmware)
Then i cleaned my z by reflashing a clean 1.23.

After that i went into the network config, and configged it to conenc to my 128bit wep network.
After 10s it connected! Joy!
I started opera, went straight to oesf... and i started noticing it was pretty slow...
At first i thought it was because signal wasnt good enough, so i went straight in the line of sight of the router, at ~3 meters. Signal was around 90%.
But pinging the router or any other comp resulted in very unstable results:

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64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=4.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=3.4 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=3.6 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=255 time=12.1 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=255 time=39.4 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=255 time=12.1 msThe ping seems to vary from 4ms(good) to 300ms(bad) with ~20-30% packet loss.
(at best, i'm getting 15% packet loss which is imho gigantic)

I'm pretty surprised considering all other devices on my network are working really fine even from very far of this router( a wrtg54).

The annoying consequence of all this is that i cant use opera/netfront who seem to have long timeouts and be monothreaded(any way to fix that? waiting 50s for a webpage that loads usually in 1.2s on my old laptop can be pretty frustrating.)

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wifi0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"sephiroth"  Nickname:"zaurus"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: 00:13:10:0C:97:FD
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   Security mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=10/70  Signal level=-77 dBm  Noise level=-88 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:5  Invalid misc:15176   Missed beacon:0

I tried both on ac and without, with the same results.

Anyone can confirm/give a solution maybe?


Paul Cahier


EDIT: some more info
dmesg has many:

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wlan0 (WE) : Buffer for request 8B1B too small (0<9)
system info:

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# uname -a
Linux zaurus 2.4.20 #20 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:54:08 +0300 armv5tel unknown
# uptime
 17:46:36 up  2:29,  2 users,  load average: 2.24, 2.12, 2.15
iwconfig says:

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Warning: Driver for device wifi0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 16, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

[DaemonsGR]

Did you try WEP-free access?

[DeathWolf]

i will later tonight, but i hope it is not that:/