On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:11:39PM +0000, Chris Clayton wrote: > Sorry, but that's not the case. I find the same results as without the > patches. With the parameter set to 'pid', the network connection fails very > quickly, but with it set to 'simple' I can ping and ftp files to and from my > laptop as much as I like and the connection stays up. In fact, if anything > the patches seem to have made the network even more fragile, in that it fails > almost instantly once I start some network activity ( < 10 pings). > > I'm sure this is not the hardware - it works perfectly with Windows XP, with > 2.6.23.14 plus the out-of-tree rt61 driver from serialmonkey, with the > in-tree driver from 2.6.24.x and with 2.6.25-rc3 with the mac82011's > ieee80211_default_rc_algo parameter set to 'simple'. At last! Vindication for insisting that we keep 'simple' around! Bwahahaha! :-) So, am I to understand that 'pid' works find for you with rtl8180? If so, then I wonder if Stefano and Ivo can help us figure-out what kind of problem is sensitive to both driver _and_ rate control algorithm? Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
