Ubuntu
ieee80211 package

Excessive packet loss with ipw2200 driver

Bug #57058 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ieee80211 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Simon Law

Bug Description

Kernel 2.6.15-26-386, Ubuntu 6.06
0000:01:05.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

I configured a wireless connection with a static IP address. Other machines were connected to the same wireless router (with different IP addresses, obviously) and worked fine. But on this machine, any kind of IP connection to or from the machine suffered from excessive packet loss, often 100%. When I ran iwconfig, I noticed that "Tx excessive retries" was very high (at least 200). After a hard reboot, the problem went away.

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Simon Law (sfllaw) wrote :

Have you tried the ipw2200 that ships with the stock Dapper kernel?

Thanks.

Changed in ieee80211:
assignee: nobody → sfllaw
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

No, and I'm no longer on the same continent as the wireless network with which I was experiencing the problem. Sorry.

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Simon Law (sfllaw) wrote :

Well, this bug has turned very unreproducable, I suppose.

Changed in ieee80211:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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