Nothing like following up to your own post... I went back and did try the laptop with windows -- STILL SLOW. I swapped in an earlier version of the access point (Netgear MR814). IT WORKS. Upload and download speeds at 5-6 Mb/sec, possibly limited by WEP on access point?? Slow CPU?? I don't care. It is fast enough. Remote X works fine.
Root cause was definitely in the Netgear 814v2 access point. There are reports of flakey behaviour with this AP on the internet, and I recently updated the firmware, and did follow netgear's recipe to the letter (did not erase previous settings). If I had time I would investigate, but not this week. Thanks for the forum. -- Robert Neff > > > I've freshly installed Debian Sarge (now stable) on > a Dell Lattitude CPiR (P-II-400). with a Dell Truemobile > 1150 802.11b PCMCIA wifi card. This is a rebadged Orinoco Card. > The base station is a Netgear MR814V2 with updated firmware. > > I apt-get'ed up to the 2.6 kernel. > > I get really slow performance with the wifi network. > Downloading off the web is ~ 150 kbits/sec, and network > behaviour is so slow that running remote X applications > from other machines on my home network is really painful, > with glacial updates. > > iwconfig indicates normal behaviour. Curiously, I have been > unable to change the channel on my card. > > Then I can hot-swap to a wired Linksys 10/100Mb card, and > everything is normal. Speed is what would be expected, and > remote X is no problem. > > I've tried turning off WEP, but observe no difference. > This is with a static network assignment. > I had some earlier problems with nameservers when I was > hotplugging, I think the resolvconf package cleared that > up. I have no problems with making connections, but > making connections quickly and download data rate > are poor. > > In a previous incarnation, this wifi card worked fine on > this laptop with Mandrake Linux (9.1). I assume if I > dual boot over to windows 98 it will be fine as well. > > I'd be interested in hearing of others' experiences on this > kernel with orinoco cards, or suggestions for other easily > available models that are well supported. > > It looks like hotplug loads orinoco, orinoco_cs, and hermes > modules when the card is plugged in. > > At somepoint I downloaded kismet, but I never set it up. > Could that be implicated somehow? > > Thanks > -- Robert Neff > robert at neffs dot net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Robert Neff -------------------------------- Data Converters, Measurement & Sensors Dept, Agilent Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED] (650)485-6220 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
