On Monday 21 September 2009 04:59:45 am Roman Kyrylych wrote: > > That is, until the updates this past week or so. My config is > > still the same. The mywpa.conf file is: > > [skipped] > > > What in the world could have changed in the past week or so that > > is presenting my wireless from being brought up at boot?? > > It is always useless when someone says something like "since recent > updates" because it does not tell anything about what packages were > upgraded. Please post the relevant part of pacman.log otherwise all we can > do is just guessing. > Thomas, Roman, From the pacman.log, it looks like this is where the problem started: [2009-09-17 22:39] upgraded madwifi-utils (0.9.4.3952-1 -> 0.9.4.4096-1) [2009-09-17 22:39] upgraded madwifi (0.9.4.3952-5 -> 0.9.4.4096-1) Prior to that, the network.d config I had posted: CONNECTION="wireless" INTERFACE=wlan0 SCAN="yes" SECURITY="wpa" ESSID="skyline" KEY="bravelightning" IP="dhcp" TIMEOUT=20 had been working great since I first installed 2009.02. Yes, I know is seems bizarre and strange, but the madwifi driver accomodated it somehow. With the update from madwifi 0.9.4.3952-5 -> 0.9.4.4096-1, the ability to make use of the wlan0 device went away. To get it working again i changed the network.d config to: CONNECTION="wireless" INTERFACE=ath0 SCAN="yes" SECURITY="wpa" ESSID="skyline" KEY="bravelightning" IP="dhcp" TIMEOUT=20 The network came right up on the next boot, but all isn't good. The network performance is about 1/20th of what it normally is. Generally I could get a solid 3-4 Meg/s over wireless when transferring files over the lan. (I'm always limited to 135K due to my ISP from the internet) I am now watching 3 meg files crawl across the wireless at 180-250K instead of 3400K. This also must be a side effect of the new madwifi driver. Looking back through the logs, the netwok had been using the "wlan0" device since day 1 and the wireless card had been working fine with the ath5k module. The only service that ever complained wlan0 interface was ntpd but the newtork was working without issue for everything else. Now it is slow... I have put the dmesg output for yesterday (a non-working log) at: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/config/wireless/dmesg-20090921.txt After changing the network.d config and having the wireless start on boot, I captured another dmesg for comparison: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/config/wireless/dmesg-20090922- WORKING.txt I also have the pacman.log (compressed) at: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/config/wireless/pacman.log.bz2 Whatever changes were made to the madwifi 0.9.4.4096-1 driver, it has killed my wireless performance. I have tested both with the ath_pci module (!ath5k) and with the ath5k module (by removing the !ath5k entry from the MODULES line in rc.conf) The ath5k driver then loads by default. However, performance is still really bad compared to where it was before the Sept. 17 madwifi upgrade: 01:48 alchemy:~/archlinux/config/wireless> lsmod | grep ath ath5k 138952 0 mac80211 179120 1 ath5k ath_rate_sample 15488 1 ath 9984 1 ath5k cfg80211 104376 3 ath5k,mac80211,ath led_class 5160 2 ath5k,sdhci ath_pci 250336 0 wlan 259744 6 wlan_tkip,wlan_ccmp,wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci ath_hal 415520 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci I either have to make more changes to my configuration to accomodate the madwifi changes, or, there is a bug in the new driver. This is where my troubleshooting skills with wireless run out. I don't know where to begin to unwravel the driver slowness. Can you think of anything else I can make available that would help? Just let me know and I'll be happy to get it for you. Also, will try to install the prior version of the madwifi driver (Ver. 0.9.4.3952-5) and see if that helps the speed issue. Thank for your help and let me know if I can post anything else you think might help. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
