Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-03-21 Thread Jan Vachun
Benno Senoner wrote: > 2008/2/14, Kalle Valo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Most probably the connection would recover after a while, and the while here being several minutes with the default TCP settings. >>> >>> You think those time outs are really that long ? >> >> Yeah, they are quite long. I h

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-22 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Kalle Valo wrote: > "ext Siarhei Siamashka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> A while ago I looked for various kernel docs to see what's happening in the >> wlan driver and what can be done to reduce cpu load. My impression was that >> tasklet can be only preempted by hardware interrupts, so it is

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-22 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Siarhei Siamashka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A while ago I looked for various kernel docs to see what's happening in the > wlan driver and what can be done to reduce cpu load. My impression was that > tasklet can be only preempted by hardware interrupts, so it is impossible to > sleep in

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-22 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On 22 February 2008, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Kalle Valo wrote: > >> Also CPU usage is very high because of busyloop when waiting till > >> DMA transfer is done. Tasklet, which executes the code can't be > >> easily preempted, as far as I understand kernel documentation. Maybe > >> it is possible t

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-22 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Frantisek Dufka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So you need to be familiar with the driver and tell us if it is > possible to sleep inside cx3110x_spi_dma_read and > cx3110x_spi_dma_write. cx3110x uses tasklets and it's not possible sleep in a tasklet. > And one also needs to be familiar wit

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-22 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Kalle Valo wrote: >> Also CPU usage is very high because of busyloop when waiting till >> DMA transfer is done. Tasklet, which executes the code can't be >> easily preempted, as far as I understand kernel documentation. Maybe >> it is possible to split tasklet into several parts, one of them >> cou

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-22 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Frantisek Dufka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [50622.038146] We haven't got a READY interrupt from WAKEUP. (firmware >> crashed?) >> [50622.038269] Try again... >> [50622.038330] succeeded!!! >> >> I'm attaching the same patch here. It is not very clean, but it does >> the job (for Nokia 77

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-22 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Siarhei Siamashka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With a simple patch that just retries operation on such error, > wireless connection got stable. After a long test with the test > script, no problems were detected. The following lines could be > occasionally seen in dmesg log and it proves t

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-22 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Benno Senoner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> An easy way to confirm, if this is a TCP problem or something else, >> is to run ping in the background and see how long timeouts (ie. how >> much you see packet loss) you get with it. ICMP ping does not have >> any of problems that TCP has. > > Y

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-18 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > I'm sorry. For some unknown reason, I thought that I notified you > about this problem long ago, but appears that we only discussed this > issue privately with Frantisek Dufka :( I think it was discussed also in the "Memory corruption during WLAN use" bug too - http://b

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-18 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Feb 14, 2008 8:43 AM, Kalle Valo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > other users reported it too as Luca Olivetti pointed out. and it > > seems like the problem and fix is described here: > > > > http://internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=134914&postcount=15 > > > > at least for the 77

Using OpenVPN over wifi (was: Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?)

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi, on Roaming: I have quite good experience with roaming when using unencrypted wifi and securing it with OpenVPN. In this setup you have your access point connected to a firewall (with OpenVPN installed) and do encryption from wifi device to the OpenVPN enabled firewall instead of to the AP. >

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-14 Thread Benno Senoner
2008/2/14, Kalle Valo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> > >> Most probably the connection would recover after a while, and the > >> while here being several minutes with the default TCP settings. > > > > > > You think those time outs are really that long ? > > > Yeah, they are quite long. I have heard ab

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-13 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Benno Senoner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > The question is could it be that the socket remains stuck due to the >> > roaming and is not able to recover ? >> >> TCP doesn't fit wireless networks that well, it usually takes a long >> time to cover from packet lost. Most probably what happe

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-05 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Frank Banul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a home user with two access points. I've noticed that the N810 holds on > to the connection with the established AP far longer than the 770 seemed to. > I expect to never see low strength signals as the two APs cover my home > nicely. But I have

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-04 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 23:18 +0100, Benno Senoner wrote: > Any suggestions ? > > I find this wlan freeze problem a grave bug is this a defect in the > N800 or a software bug ? One thing you could try is setting up openvpn: N800 as client, the VNC machine as server: it will secure your VNC connecti

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-04 Thread Frank Banul
I'm a home user with two access points. I've noticed that the N810 holds on to the connection with the established AP far longer than the 770 seemed to. I expect to never see low strength signals as the two APs cover my home nicely. But I have not noticed any problems associated with this apparent

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-04 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Luca Olivetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Sometimes it even happens that the operator when roaming and wanting to >> use the N800 >> the VNC session got stuck and nothing works, so he has to power cycle it. > > This also happens with no roaming at all (i.e. the connection manager > show

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-04 Thread Kalle Valo
"ext Benno Senoner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to solve a big WLAN roaming problem which the N800 > experiences and I think it is of interest to many as good WLAN > responsiveness for the N800(and successors) is the key for smooth user > experience, so please chime in with your expe

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-02 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Benno Senoner ha escrit: > Thanks for your information Luca ! > > what do you mean with "t's not possible to transfer any data" ? that you can't ping, cannot resolve hostname, ssh sessions hangs, can't load webpages, etc., you get the idae > you mean VNC gets stuck or the whole network la

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-02 Thread Benno Senoner
Thanks for your information Luca ! what do you mean with "t's not possible to transfer any data" ? you mean VNC gets stuck or the whole network layer of the n800 ? So basically once it gets stuck you cannot even open the brower and access a webpage ? Please elaborate. And with "reconnect the the

Re: WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-02 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Benno Senoner ha escrit: > Sometimes it even happens that the operator when roaming and wanting to > use the N800 > the VNC session got stuck and nothing works, so he has to power cycle it. This also happens with no roaming at all (i.e. the connection manager show the tablet as associated

WLAN Horrible Roaming Performance (N800, OS2008), Software or Hardware Problem ?

2008-02-02 Thread Benno Senoner
Hi all, I am trying to solve a big WLAN roaming problem which the N800 experiences and I think it is of interest to many as good WLAN responsiveness for the N800(and successors) is the key for smooth user experience, so please chime in with your experiences, ideas how to solve those problems etc.