[Gta04-owner] bad wifi performance in kernel 3.3 but not with 2.6.32

[Andreas Kemnade]

Hi,

On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 10:23 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Sunday, May 06, 2012 a las 10:12:46AM +0200, Andreas Kemnade escribió:
> 
> > > > Anyone knows what is going wrong there? What is the way to debug that?
> > > 
> > > Maybe just the firmware changed? This should be rather easily
> > > detectable. Other differences require more work to find them.
> > > 
> > Userspace (so also /lib/firmware) was same (mostly the basic LXDE rootfs
> > with some additions).
> > The LXDE rootfs and also qtmoko ships with
> > the debian libertas-firmware package.
> > I tried also the firmware from the firmware-libertas package in debian
> > unstable/backports after that. It does not change things much.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Pls check this on all involved points:
> -- netmasks and MTU on all interfaces
> -- routings
> -- with tcpdump if there are misrouted pkgs and redirects
> 

Why should this also affect the bitrate iwconfig shows (with 3.3 it
stays at 5.5Mb/s)? 
But I doublechecked that points anyways again to be sure. 
The unusual low rate was in different networks. And other devices work
there. So this points can be ruled out.

> What gives PING from the nearest IP to the FR's Wifi IP?

--- 192.168.9.119 ping statistics ---
33 packets transmitted, 33 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 4.7/12.4/20.5 ms


> Is this with WEP or WPA? Try changing this to the other mode.
> 
That was with WPA. But I'll set up another accesspoint for testing soon.

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade