Wonderful, thank you for the tips. I'll wade back into it tomorrow or
the next day and let you know what I find.
Thank you,
Steve
On 07/09/13 22:55, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
Emmanuel,
Thank you for your quick response!
It is a regression. I regularly had 300 Mbps speeds on this very access point,
but it was years ago, in the 2.6 kernel series. However, I believe, from
extensive online searches, that Intel has disabled the N functionality in the
firmware on Linux, ostensibly until they (you? :-)
) can fix whatever problem they were seeing. With the demise of the Intel
Linux Wireless bug tracker, though, public tracking of the bug has been
impossible. There are now-dead links to the defunct bug tracker over this
very issue.
11n hasn't been disabled in firmware, but rather in driver.
There is a bug we know about the "fail to flush tx fifo" thing that people reports (through mailing list or bugzilla of RedHat).
Can you please send the output of the kerne log (dmesg)?
Sadly I only get 2 MByte/s on N, and under 1 MByte/s G.
I have not tried another access point in ages. Tired of replacing fried Netgears
and Dlinks and Belkins, I've converted all my friends and families to Apple's
access points. I'll try to locate something else and see how it goes.
No need to. If you say that it worked, then it should still work. The issue I was thinking is the way they use some fancy feature of WiFi that no one implements (besides the wifi module of their devices of course).
Also, can you please try different firmwares from http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi#Download ?
I wonder if newer firmware has made things worse. You may want to try older firmware.
To do so, open the tarball from that you'll download and copy iwlwifi-*.ucode to /lib/firmware.
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