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Re: [ath9k-devel] [Moblin Dev] Wireless is keep on disconnecting

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Hello,

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:07:45PM -0800, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>> Hello Luis,
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>> <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Jaswinder Singh Rajput
>> > <jaswindermobile@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Hello Luis,
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>> >> <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Jaswinder Singh Rajput
>> >>> <jaswindermobile@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>>> I keep on getting "Network Lost" message on moblin 2.1 when I transfer
>> >>>>> some big file. I am trying to understand Is it a feature or a Bug.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> My other machines are working great with Wireless even Windows XP
>> >>>>> running on Netbook never did this to me.
>> >>>
>> >>> Your report lacks a lot of information, its unclear what Moblin 2.1 is
>> >>> using for its kernel for those who are not following moblin
>> >>> development on a regular basis, and if its anything older than 2.6.32
>> >>> its old and I recommend upgrading. May want to try to upgrade your
>> >>> kernel or upgrade to a stable release of compat-wireless snapshot for
>> >>> example:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> I am attaching dmesg on Acer Aspire One D250 Netbook.
>> >>
>> >> I am going to build latest git kernel and with latest wireless kernel
>> >> on it and let you know the status.
>> >
>> > latest wireless kernel is not a good idea if you are considering using
>> > wireless-testing unless your are up to deal with a bleeding edge
>> > kernel which may not yet be completely stable. Stick to stable if you
>> > want stable.
>> >
>>
>> I have old kernel git tree (2.6.32-rc7 ac50e9507 , Tue Nov 17 09:42:35
>> 2009) sitting on my box I tested with it.
>> I have tested it for long time and I am attaching the dmesg, I never
>> got Network Lost message with :
>> commit ac50e950784cae1c26ad9e09ebd8f8c706131eb3
>> Merge: 5743695... 6c06f07...
>> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Tue Nov 17 09:42:35 2009 -0800
>>
>> Here is my test with iperf, even though iperf client does not work so
>> I used iperf server and get speed of approx 19 Mbits/sec. Now my issue
>> is why speed is soo slow ?
>>
>> [jaswinder@jaswinder-desktop iperf-2.0.4]$ ./configure CXX=g++-4.3
>> CC=gcc-4.3 --prefix=/home/jaswinder
>>
>> [jaswinder@jaswinder-desktop iperf-2.0.4]$ iperf -c 192.168.1.220
>> connect failed: No route to host
>> write1 failed: Broken pipe
>> write2 failed: Broken pipe
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Client connecting to 192.168.1.220, TCP port 5001
>> TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> [  3] local 0.0.0.0 port 38243 connected with 192.168.1.220 port 5001
>> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
>> [  3]  0.0- 0.0 sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec
>> [jaswinder@jaswinder-desktop iperf-2.0.4]$ iperf -s
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Server listening on TCP port 5001
>> TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> [  4] local 192.168.1.2 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.220 port 48659
>> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
>> [  4]  0.0-10.3 sec  23.1 MBytes  18.9 Mbits/sec
>> [  5] local 192.168.1.2 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.220 port 48660
>> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
>> [  5]  0.0-10.2 sec  24.0 MBytes  19.7 Mbits/sec
>> [  4] local 192.168.1.2 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.220 port 39090
>> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
>> [  4]  0.0-120.2 sec    286 MBytes  19.9 Mbits/sec
>>
>> I will also test with wireless-testing tree and let you know the results.
>
> I recommend to use latest stable, use wireless-testing if you feel comfortable
> with dealing with issues. your 2.6.32-rc7 is old, I recommend a stable release,
> there have been quite a large number of fixes that have gone into the 2.6.32
> stable series already.
>

With wireless-testing I am getting oops. I am attaching it picture.

On reverting commit	285f2ddae03ca207877262f5a9dbd9cddd8b3913
author	Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
	 Fri, 8 Jan 2010 05:06:07 +0000 (10:06 +0530)
committer	John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
	 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:02:05 +0000 (14:02 -0500)

Fixes the oops and wireless start working.

I also noticed one more thing now speed is further reduced from 19 to 15 Mbps :

$ iperf -c 192.168.1.2 -t 20
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.2, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 192.168.1.220 port 45406 connected with 192.168.1.2 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-20.0 sec  38.1 MBytes  15.9 Mbits/sec
$ iperf -c 192.168.1.2 -t 20
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.2, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 192.168.1.220 port 45407 connected with 192.168.1.2 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-20.0 sec  36.4 MBytes  15.2 Mbits/sec


Thanks,
--
Jaswinder Singh.

Attachment: wl-testing-e384cc6e.jpg
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