Re: 2.4.20-pre11: PCI Wavelan card loses connection

[Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:20:14AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> I bought a PCI wireless card, a DLink-520 (I think, I forgot exactly
> (it's at home), anyway, lspci dump is below).
> 
> We (my father and me) made a fairly long helical aerial.
> We are trying to communicate over ~15 km with a small wireless cell.
> (~10 hosts, one AP).
> 
> We can successfully associate with it, signal is weak as expected.
> But after a short while our eth0 seems to 'fall off the net'
> and while it looks like we can send packets, we see no incoming data
> at all.
> 
> Since I have almost zero wireless experience, I'll be happy if someone
> with said experience can read further and say what bites us.

        Personally, I never managed to get this hardware to work at
all. And Orinoco is known to have problems with PrismII cards. Please
use the HostAP or linux-wlan-ng driver.
        Good luck...

        Jean