> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:21, Eric Tanguy wrote: > >> I'm trying to get my prism pci card working (01:08.0 Network >> controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism >> Duette] (rev 01)) but i have a lot of trouble with this. I achieved to >> make it work with my network but the connection seems to be heratic : >> when i do a ping over my network i obtain times from 1ms to 1000ms >> randomly. When i make a test connection i only achieve 200kB/s in my >> private network whereas with another wifi card using ndiswrapper i >> obtain a ping time quiet constant around 1 or 2 ms and connections >> about 10Mb/s at least. So i don't understand the pb. Help ? > > Looks like your card has the same chip set at my D-Link DWL-G650. > > Probably the first thing to check is the signal strength you are getting > from the access point. Run: > > iwlist scan > > Report back the results, looking for the signal level, signal, and noise > levels. > I'm not at home i will try this evening > How far are you from the access point? That can affect the signal > strength. Also what kind of walls are between you and the access point? About 10m with 2 or 3 walls > > Actually since you indicated a different card works well it could just > be the prism54 card. Which brand is it? Is there anyway you can > confirm that the antenna inside it is hooked up? Ran into an HP laptop > once that had very poor wireless performance. Found that the internal > wireless card did not have the antenna hooked up. After that was fixed > it worked just fine. I forget to say that the same pc has a double-boot with winxp and the card work fine with it. So i think there is no problem with the card and maybe the problem come from prism54 driver ? > > Looks like I have a version of prism54 driver from back in May of this > year. They probably have newer versions out at this point. Not sure > how to get a version number out of the running driver. >
