kernel reports incorrect wireless rate of 1Mb/s for 54Mb/s capable zd1211rw based card
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Bug Description
I have a zd1211rw based network card that reports 54Mb/s connection rate under jaunty. However, in karmic, it reports 1Mb/s but I have tested the card and I am getting speeds that are faster than this reported rate. I think this is just a bug with the network-
My system:
Ubuntu Karmic 9.10
zd1211rw wireless driver for 2Wire wireless g USB device
network-manager and network-
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Sat Nov 7 00:00:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.76 metric 2
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
default via 192.168.1.254 dev wlan0 proto static
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: network-
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
RfKill:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(gnome-
(polkit-
(nautilus:2978): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
Same problem with my usb dongle (A-LINK) using the zd1211rw module. /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ linux/+ bug/468465)
Bit Rate shows 1 MB/s unless manually set otherwise (see bug:468465 in launchpad: https:/
Also, I have very poor signal ratio, even when the dongle is less than 5 meters from the router and there is only single wall (6 cm concrete) between them. The wall does not have iron in it and the router has been set to send the signal at 100 % power.
The signal is 36...41 % and ping shows some dropped packets between the router and my computer.
Is there any other solution to this than getting a line of sight - which seems to improve the ratio to 67 % over 3 meters, but still that is not even near full ratio which I thought it should be over this distance.
Mikko