Le Mercredi 14 Août 2002 15:06, Jean-Paul Smets a écrit : > Le Lundi 12 Août 2002 18:49, Oden Eriksson a écrit : > > On måndagen den 12 augusti 2002 06.18 Jean-Paul Smets wrote: > > > Le Lundi 12 Août 2002 17:33, Oden Eriksson a écrit : > > > > On måndagen den 12 augusti 2002 04.58 Jean-Paul Smets wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > We have tried to install linux-wlan-ng-0.1.14 drivers on Mandrake > > > > > 9.0 Beta > > > > > > > > Hi, I looked into this a couple of months ago when I found the > > > > OpenAP project. To me it looks like there are also some major > > > > fundamental differences in the pcmcia-cs provided by Mandrake that > > > > makes this impossible? > > Apparently, the PRISMII cards are working rather well with the Mandrake > 2.4.19mdk kernel. There are still some issues I think however. The main > problemen I had with orinoco dirvers on PRISM II cards is that the driver > has the be rebooted (/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart) after some heavy file > transfers (typ. 100MB). This does not happen with wlan-ng drivers. > > Maybe the current kernel is OK for client systems (but it is not OK for > servers which act as Access Point). > > JPS.
After some tests of PRISM II and Mandrake kernel, here is the conclusion : it is not reliable. After 50/100MB of information is sent through the card, the kernel says: Aug 13 17:43:54 localhost kernel: eth1: error -110 reading Rx descriptor. Frame dropped. Aug 13 17:43:54 localhost kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing packet to BAP Aug 13 17:43:54 localhost kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP Aug 13 17:44:25 localhost last message repeated 18505 times Aug 13 17:45:26 localhost last message repeated 38057 times Aug 13 17:45:57 localhost last message repeated 20736 times Aug 13 17:45:57 localhost dhcpcd[3645]: terminating on signal 15 Aug 13 17:46:00 localhost kernel: descriptor to BAP Aug 13 17:46:00 localhost kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP Aug 13 17:46:01 localhost last message repeated 335 times Aug 13 17:46:01 localhost kernel: eth1: Error -110 setting multicast list. With linux-wlan-ng, such thing does not happen. That'why I think the inclusion of linux-wlan-ng would be good. JPS. -- Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes Nexedi CEO Tel. +33(0)6 62 05 76 14 Fax. +33(0)1 53 01 09 29 About www.nexedi.com Nexedi is a consulting and development services company helping small and medium organisations to choose open source / free software and fulfill their IT application needs. Nexedi is the founder of the ERP5 project, a Free / Open Source ERP software based on innovative technologies (www.erp5.org). About www.storever.com Storever provides a reliable source for notebooks and servers preconfigured with the GNU/Linux operating system
