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linko

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From: Mississippi

Registered: 2008-12-06

Posts: 16

Packet Loss, Wireless

--- google.com ping statistics ---
314 packets transmitted, 308 received, 1% packet loss, time 314133ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 60.753/91.251/127.490/9.785 ms

Every few minutes or so, I get a bit of packet loss, that lasts for just a few seconds.  Normally, this wouldn't be a problem for browsing the web and such, but while playing Urban Terror (first person shooter), this is getting to be a problem.

This packet loss occurs in Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch, but does not occur when using ndiswrapper.

sudo lspci -vv

03:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
    Subsystem: RaLink EW-7108PCg
    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 128 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
    Region 0: Memory at feaf8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
    Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
        Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Kernel driver in use: rt61pci
    Kernel modules: rt61pci

If anyone could give me any tips or pointers, I would very much appreciate it.

linko

Member

From: Mississippi

Registered: 2008-12-06

Posts: 16

Re: Packet Loss, Wireless

It has completely stopped... Extremely odd...  The only thing I can think that I have changed, was installing Wicd.

Wicd++

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,221

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Re: Packet Loss, Wireless

Possibly wicd has some quirk-settings for your driver.

Netcfg lets you specify some well-known quirks, and one of them might solve your problem.

I had a similar problem with the new ath9k-driver and reverted back to ndiswrapper until the .28-kernel is out.

Zl.