Re: DLINK DWL-122 on ARM platform not stable, why?

Solomon Peachy <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:32:09 -0400
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 04:59:42PM +0800, Tiger.Yin wrote:
> The dlink dwl-122 dongle i used on my ARM(XScale270) platform seemed
> not stable, the linux is 2.6.10. USB driver used OHCI mode.

What driver version?   What firmware version?

> Sometime, this error appeared:
> skb_p80211_to_ether: OTHER frame too large (-4 > 1500)

This is interesting. =20

> 2. Opensystem with WEP(64bits)
> When i set WEP(64bits) on AP, the dongle also could connect to the AP,
> and i could see the dongle's information on AP's trace. But even i set
> IP address and route of the dongle, no host could i ping to. Some
> error info like this:
> ... ...
> message=3Dlnxreq_autojoin
>   ssid=3D'mobot'
>   authtype=3Dopensystem
>   resultcode=3Dsuccess
> /usr/lib # linkstatus=3DCONNECTED

Are you sure you don't need 'authtype=3Dsharedkey'?

Is the WEP key known to be identical/correct?

Finally, despite many heroic efforts from many contributors
(Especially Chris Rankin), prism2 USB hardware is inherently=20
flaky.  Newer firmawre helps a lot, as do newer driver revs.
=20
 - Solomon
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