What wireless card do you have? I had some issues with the ipw2200 with hanging, but once I disabled HW crypto it worked better, I won't remember exactly how to disable it right now, but there were lots of examples on the web about it. slide On 10/10/06, Mark Phillips wrote: > A quick follow up: > > I have also noticed some variability in the signal strength of the wireless > network. It moves around from between 33% and 20% signal strength. I am not > sure what the effect is of changing network speeds on the hardware or the > software. This observation also seems to correlate with the variability in > ping response time over the wireless network: > > ping to access point over wired network (100baseT): > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.704/0.785/1.093/0.105 ms > > ping to Pentium PC over wired network > (100baseT to access point, wireless-g network to Pentium PC) > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.126/2.092/49.162/5.396 ms > > Beyond running a wire to the Pentium PC, any suggestions on what I can do to > stop the display, and occasionally, the computer, from hanging? Or, how to > further isolate the problem? > > Thanks! > > Mark > > On Monday 09 October 2006 06:05 pm, Dazed_75 wrote: > > No idea whether it relates to your problem or not, but I find my wifi signal > > strength seems to vary a lot for at least some clients. My TiVo unit (20-25 > > feet from the Linksys WRT54g) connects using a Netgear WG111 802.11g usb > > adapter and the Tivo reports signal strength varying widely over time. When > > the strength shows low, transfer rates seem to go to hell probably due to > > errors. OTOH, my Toshoba laptop with built-in wifi shows slightly varying, > > but consistently high, signal strength even form the other end of the house > > which is through two walls. > > > > Point is the variance in signal strength can also be the receiver and can > > definitely cause bad slowdowns or lags. > > > > On 10/9/06, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > > > I have ndiswrapper 1.16 installed on an old Pentium laptop running Debian > > > sarge (2.6.8-2-386). The wireless card is a DLink DWL-G630 using the > > > mrv8ka51 > > > driver. My access point is a Linksys WRT54G. > > > > > > The pentium box is setup as a remote X-terminal over ssh - i.e. a minimal > > > installation of Debian and X. It makes a great remote terminal for my kids > > > for homework. (see Sterminal - a nifty script - > > > http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/stirling/computergeek/xterminal.html) > > > > > > Most of the time this setup works just fine. However, occasionally, the > > > display hangs and doesn't come back for a couple of minutes, or never. The > > > computer is not dead - I can usually ssh from another computer. However, > > > the > > > X-terminal session is frozen. > > > > > > I have also noticed that if I run a ping from this computer over my local > > > network, I get on average a 1 ms response. But occasionally, the time > > > jumps > > > to 30 or 50 ms. > > > > > > How can I go about finding the cause of this in-frequent hanging? I don't > > > know > > > if it is a ndiswrapper issue, card issue, slow Pentium issue, driver > > > issue, > > > access point issue, phase of the moon, etc. > > > > > > I thought about upgrading to the latest ndiswrapper, but it has to be > > > compiled > > > with gcc >3.4 and my kernel was compiled with gcc3.3. I tried recompiling > > > my > > > kernel with gcc3.4, but it failed to boot up. Probably a configuration > > > issue, > > > even though I used the config file that came with my Debian kernel > > > 2.6.8-2-386. Instead of fixing this problem only to find that the screen > > > hanging is not an ndiswrapper problem, I thought I would go back to the > > > actual problem I want to solve and see if there is another way to > > > troubleshoot it. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > -- > > > Mark Phillips > > > Phillips Marketing, Inc > > > mark@phillipsmarketing.biz > > > 602 524-0376 > > > 480 945-9197 fax > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter > > and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss > > > > -- > Mark Phillips > Phillips Marketing, Inc > mark@phillipsmarketing.biz > 602 524-0376 > 480 945-9197 fax > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss