Atheros WLAN (MadWifi) poor signal strength
Bug #66481 reported by
Christiansen
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #62106: Cannot set modes other than 'Managed' on Atheros based wifi card.
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linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu) |
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linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Struggling with poor signal stregnth on my Thinkpad R60 with a builtin Atheros WLAN adapter running Kubuntu edgy with kernel 2.6.17-10.33 - kernels before 10.33 has also been tested. Running Kubuntu edgy on other Thinkpads with Intel 2200BG WLAN adapter works perfect, high signal strength, and high performance on both different Cisco and Netgear APs (newest FW). Cisco APs seems to perform a little better than Netgear, but the overall performance is nearly unusable on both.
Tried to adjust various parameters according to instructions found on the madwifi.org site, but nothing seems to make signal strength better.
I would gladly provide any additionally info needed to solve this issue.
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Same here.
NIC:
Belkin F5D7000 ver. 5100
AP:
Linksys WRT54G
NIC was installed automatically as ath0 by madwifi, within Edgy. Network Manager (applet) shows a mere one bar of strength (14% and less), whereas my laptop always shows all four bars. Right now my connection speed says 2Mb/s. (ack! I paid for 54! ;)
Both the router and NIC are 802.11b/g, though my initial suspicion is that the card is operating in b mode for some reason. Note that the card works fine, at full capacity, under XP on the same box... unfortunately, I can't just use XP instead, that's not a fair trade-off.