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[Marc Dietrich <marvin24@xxxxxx>]

On Saturday 22 October 2011 13:34:40 Christian Lins wrote:
> Am 22.10.2011 13:17, schrieb Luka:
> > Have you tried Henning Heinold method ?
> > 
> >> I have sometimes problems too and solving them with the
> >> "hardwaretrick",
> >> 
> >> which means pressing left of the micro-holes on the frame of the
> >> display.> 
> > Its strange but it worked for me. But after half an hour connection
> > became unstable. My model is AC100 10V using latest marvin24 kernel on
> > debian armhf.
> 
> Absolutely facinating:) I started pinging the AP while pressing left of
> the two holes and it works. Every time I stop pressing, the pinging
> stops with packet drops.
> Perhaps Toshiba should have shipped the AC100 with a clothespeg :D

I think Pierre-Hugues has a hw mod which may fix such problems (CCing).
>From what I understood, there is some shilding for the LCD which also
covers the wifi antenna in some machines.

> But, why is Wifi working with Android?

Maybe the driver there can deal better with unstable connections. The rt2x00
development is still work in progress. I added some newer patches to my
experimental tree (you need to boot with psmouse.proto=imps for now), maybe
this helps a bit, maybe not.

> > In dmesg I constantly get (connection is stable):
> > 
> > [ 7140.631127] phy0 -> rt2800usb_txdone_entry_check: Warning - TX status
> > report missed for queue 2 entry 5
> > [ 7140.634491] phy0 -> rt2800usb_txdone_entry_check: Warning - TX status
> > report missed for queue 2 entry 6
> > [ 7140.637097] phy0 -> rt2800usb_txdone_entry_check: Warning - TX status
> > report missed for queue 2 entry 8
> > [ 7140.637490] phy0 -> rt2800usb_txdone_entry_check: Warning - TX status
> > report missed for queue 2 entry 10
> > [ 7140.637862] phy0 -> rt2800usb_txdone_entry_check: Warning - TX status
> > report missed for queue 2 entry 11
> > [ 7140.638453] phy0 -> rt2800usb_txdone_entry_check: Warning - TX status
> > report missed for queue 2 entry 14
> > ....

Sometimes these warnings are harmless, but you may better ask on the rt2x00
mailing list. We AC100 developers cannot help much in these problems because
we are familar with this kind of hardware.

	Marc

> Funny, I get those messages with rt2800usb on my desktop system.
> 
> > I've applied those patches: (on latest marvin24 kernel)
> > rt2x00: fix crash in rt2800usb_write_tx_desc -
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;
> > a=commit;h=4b1bfb7d2d125af6653d6c2305356b2677f79dc6
> > 
> > rt2x00: fix crash in rt2800usb_get_txwi -
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;
> > a=commit;h=674db1344443204b6ce3293f2df8fd1b7665deea
> > 
> > 
> > Kernel is still compiling on ac100, didn't tested it yet.
> 
> Looking forward to hear your results.