On Tuesday 22 September 2009 08:49:51 am Daenyth Blank wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:43, David C. Rankin
>
> <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Vincent,
> >
> > Thank you for the information. At least I know I'm not going
> > crazy... It looks like I will have to downgrade the kernel to test the
> > older madwifi package:
>
> Could you try to recompile the older madwifi from svn using the latest
> kernel and see if that works? Also testing previous kernel with latest
> madwifi would be good. I'm fairly concerned about this, as I also use
> the madwifi drivers, and my speed is abysmal as it is... A reduction
> like that would put me at dial-up speeds.
>
Danny,
I downgraded the kernel and madwifi, by downgrading the following:
kernel-headers-2.6.30.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
kernel26-2.6.30.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
kernel26-firmware-2.6.30-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
madwifi-0.9.4.3952-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
madwifi-utils-0.9.4.3952-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
The wireless then started as usual under wlan0/ath0 and performance is back
to FANTASTIC:
alchemy:~> rsync -uav --progress archangel:~/dsj.wav .
receiving incremental file list
dsj.wav
23578844 100% 3.10MB/s 0:00:07 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
sent 30 bytes received 23581816 bytes 3144246.13 bytes/sec
total size is 23578844 speedup is 1.00
compared to the performance with the new kernel/driver:
alchemy:~> rsync -uav --progress archangel:~/dsj.wav .
receiving incremental file list
dsj.wav
23578844 100% 201.77kB/s 0:01:54 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
That's 3.10MB/s with the old kernel/madwifi combination and only 201.7kB/s
with the new.
The working setup under the old kernel was accomplished by:
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid "skyline"
wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d -B
dhcpcd wlan0
Done!
[09:50 alchemy:/home/david/archlinux/config/wireless] # ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1000 (1000.0 b) TX bytes:1000 (1000.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:9E:7C:F6:E7
inet addr:192.168.6.102 Bcast:192.168.6.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:9eff:fe7c:f6e7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17096 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8733 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:25090930 (23.9 Mb) TX bytes:784205 (765.8 Kb)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1B-9E-7C-F6-
E7-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP RUNNING MTU:0 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
[09:50 alchemy:/home/david/archlinux/config/wireless] # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"skyline"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:23:69:5C:FD:B6
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:***** [3] Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=51/70 Signal level=-59 dBm Noise level=-103 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
I know the wmaster0/wlan0 combination was weird, but it seemed to work fine.
I'll change the config to wifi0/ath0 under the old kernel, confirm performance
under the setup and then I'll reinstall the new kernel and try to build
madwifi from svn as you have suggested. Let me know if you have any other
thoughts in the mean time. Thanks.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
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