Subject: Re: thinkpad wireless loses @ coffee shop (was Re: Too weird.)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/13/2003 12:26:00
Please try to capture 802.11 packets using tcpdump -D ieee802_11 -i wi0.
A trace is most informative when it comes from a different computer than
the one under test.
Dave
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:19:53PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <20030113160927.GA2706@yeah-baby.shagadelic.org>, Jason R Thorpe wri
> tes:
> >On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:28:18PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> >
> > > So... Anyone aware of circumstances where a wi0 card would be able to do dh
> >cp,
> > > but not able to do even one round-trip ping packet to the base station,
> > > but a different (lucent) card would work? To make it worse, the Handera's
> > > card and the ThinkPad's are both Prism cards with similar chipsets.
> >
> >The first thing that pops to mind is signal strength problems.
>
> Signal strength was consistently quite high. I'm gonna have to go back and
> debug it more later. :)
>
> -s
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