> Wireless is *so* hard to debug, the programmers can never get to the > location where it actually fails repeatably -- and when it's failing, > the laptop is by definition off the net, so they can't login to it > remotely to debug it.
Has anybody figured out how to run tcpdump on another system? Do the radio chip sets support promiscuous mode? > Access points with encryption have *never* worked reliably on the XO Mine works well enough that I don't pay much attention to it. I'm using a Linksys/Cisco WRT54GL with stock firmware and encryption. 2 or 3 of my neighbors' APs are usually visible. If bugs happen often enough, then you can debug them. If they don't happen often enough to debug, then they probably won't disrupt work very much. I just ran a few tests. I'm just rebooting and looking to see if packets start working again. I'm using ping to measure "works". 1: OK 2: 171 ping packets dropped. 3: Failed. First poke at Connect failed. Second worked. 4: 170 5: 173 6: 169 7: 170 8: 173 9: 174 10: 170 11: 166 12: 178 13: 176 14: 172 15: 177 16: 174 Is there anything I/we can do to get more info? Can I turn on logging so there is something to look at in case I can get it to fail again? -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel