On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Sarton O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > I use testing and have varied success with wifi. I don't bother with trying > to > identify what going on by what's being reported. It has been stated on here > that the issues with the driver are great enough that statistics may be > skewed. > > What I have witnessed is that sometimes it appears the wireless hardware is > next to useless ... but then under a different update or on another day it > functions flawlessly even in a problematic area of the house. When I was > running stable with no real updates coming down, I couldn't even be > bothered > with wireless. > > At the moment, I am having issues. Selecting wireless 'on' results in > nothing > being displayed. I have to push all my scripts back across so I haven't > tested > manually yet. > > So in summary, I don't think it's worth attempting to figure this out as an > end user as yet. I believe it's driver/kernel related. The hardware itself > is > quite new so it doesn't really surprise me. I'd wait for a statement as > _everybody_ has this problem. I can't imagine the devs are sitting there > with > freerunners and working wireless ;) > > All this discussion does not help if you realize that even after placing the FR *next* to the blooming router, you get reported a signal strength of 65%. What does the hardware expect, building the router *inside* the FR?
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