On 9 Dec 2002, Keith Winston wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 11:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > several weeks ago, i put my RH 8.0 laptop on a small > > wireless net here in the house -- linksys pcmcia card > > and linksys 4-port WAP router. > > > > most of the time, everything is fine, but recently, > > and increasingly frequently, the data transfer just hangs, > > typically at the same time as an arbitrary web page download. > > What kind of data transfer? NFS, samba, ftp, scp...? > > I have experienced problems moving large data files over a wireless > connection with every connection type, but NFS seems to be the worst. > There is some kind of deep problem there that rears its ugly head from > time to time. I can move gigs of data over NFS and a wired ethernet > connection to the same server with no problem. in fact, i am doing *nothing* involving NFS. invariably, i will just be surfing the web, and suddenly, the mozilla browser will simply stall, at which point i'll notice that fetchmail will no longer work. then it's off to "service network restart". mose than anything, i'd like to know how to just *see* that something is not working properly anymore since, as i mentioned, "ifconfig" shows nothing out of the ordinary. rday p.s. i've enabled my wireless networking under RH 8.0 *without* the wlan-ng drivers, following the instructions at http://linux.oldcrank.com/tipcs/wpc11 i mayh move on to trying the wlan-ng stuff to see if it makes a difference. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
