Ubuntu 8.04.1 - Intel Pro/Wireless 3945AGB Solution (w/o Duct Tape)?

[Pastor JW]

On Wednesday 23 July 2008 04:59:46 am Phil Bieber wrote:
>
> So am I. The only problem I have, is that my connection is rather
> shaky and the speeds suck. I tried it with different distros (Fedora 9
> 64 Bit, Ubuntu Hardy 32 Bit) and nothing changes... I just don't know
> what happened. With Gutsy, everything was good!
> I did confirm that only the iwl modules were loaded (as Pastor JW
> suggested)...

I remember dropouts with the other module, but didn't notice speeds.  

> If anybody has an idea how to solve something like that, I'm open for
> any suggestions....
 
Today ,whenever I find a speed problem, I also find that because of noise (you 
can check the levels with "iwconfig"), it is only managing a "b" connection 
and also I am on a point different than mine (distance is greater).  My 
Belkin point is set to connect as either "b" or "g" but seems to default 
to "g" first and fall back to "b" if it can not make a connection at "g".  (I 
also use a Palm lifedrive and it can only connect to "b" so both "b' and "g" 
are enabled)  I have noticed my neighbors Linksys point seems to default 
to "b" first on my Dell but my secretary's Vaio normally connects to the same 
point as "g", I don't know what wireless card the Vaio has and she is now on 
vacation.

> Oh and yes, with Windows I get speeds >= 1000kbyte/s (while hardy only
> sometimes even reaches ~50kbyte/s)

This would seem to point to a Ubuntu config file; however, I don't find one 
which makes any sense to me.  Then too, I normally run in KDE rather than 
Gnome and the manager may be different.  KWiFiManager does make a log and I 
can see which point I connected to and at what time and date.


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