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[Bernd Eggink <monoped@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bernd Eggink schrieb:
> I'm experiencing some problems with wlan under 2.6.30. Very frequently I
> have to restart wlan several times until a connection with my FritzBox 
> is established, even if I'm only 1 m away from the box. The command 
> 'iwconfig wlan0' shows link qualities of the form 64/70, while under 
> kernel 2.6.29.5 it's always 98/100 or so (I don't know what the divisor 
> means, but I guess it should normally be 100). And sometimes I get 
> connections with a ridiculous bit rate of 1 Mb/s.

Meanwhile I fiddled a bit with the kernel parameters and managed to 
improve things a lot. I think the problem was the (involuntary) 
activation of  WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY (Networking support / Wireless / 
Old wireless static regulatory definitions). After setting it to "no", 
Wlan connections happen fast and reliable again, although they still 
don't survive suspend-to-RAM, as they did in 2.6.29. Link quality is 
also much better now.

Regards,
Bernd

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