On Tuesday 22 September 2009 01:36:32 pm Xavier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:17 PM, David C. Rankin > > <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > I have been chasing my tail on the madwifi issue and I think I > > have found the problem. It's not madwifi at all, it's the timezone > > handling. > > WTF does fsck/recovery console at boot have to do with slow wireless? > Networking is very sensitive to time difference between hosts (especially to time going backwards). I am making an educated guess here, but I suspect that when the box came up 5 hours in the past it adversly affected the wireless networking in some strange way. How? -- Dunno, but after tearing apart the madwifi setup, downgrading kernels, packages, etc. and re-upgrading, the only change was the localtime setting in rc.conf that was causing my clock to reset by the tzoffset on boot. That's my swag at it... -- 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
