More info on wireless not working

[Mark Knecht]

Music was playing for a couple of hours and then it just quit. It
won't seem to start up again.

Pimg is dropping packets. Letency is very long on some of them:

[mark at Godzilla mark]$ ping dragonfly
PING Dragonfly (192.168.10.52) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=19.4 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=111 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=153 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=58.1 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=134 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=137 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=53.6 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=2.30 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=17 ttl=64 time=3.83 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=18 ttl=64 time=2.78 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=19 ttl=64 time=20.3 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=21 ttl=64 time=60.0 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=22 ttl=64 time=8.56 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=23 ttl=64 time=4.54 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=27 ttl=64 time=11.9 ms
64 bytes from Dragonfly (192.168.10.52): icmp_seq=28 ttl=64 time=6.94 ms
 
--- Dragonfly ping statistics ---
30 packets transmitted, 16 received, 46% packet loss, time 29021ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.303/49.320/153.896/53.018 ms, pipe 2
[mark at Godzilla mark]$


Locally I see only one error:

[mark at Godzilla mark]$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:27:17:91:5D
          inet addr:192.168.10.51  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::290:27ff:fe17:915d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:112861 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
          TX packets:74695 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:2 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:155813517 (148.5 Mb)  TX bytes:7090653 (6.7 Mb)
 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1505 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1505 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1422755 (1.3 Mb)  TX bytes:1422755 (1.3 Mb)
 
[mark at Godzilla mark]$


The remote (wireless server) machine sees none:

[mark at dragonfly mark]$ /sbin/ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4794 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4794 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:5593196 (5.3 Mb)  TX bytes:5593196 (5.3 Mb)
 
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:95:83:86:A4
          inet addr:192.168.10.52  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::211:95ff:fe83:86a4/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:50664 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:79563 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:8729844 (8.3 Mb)  TX bytes:103174215 (98.3 Mb)
          Interrupt:22 Memory:f9001000-f9001024
 
[mark at dragonfly mark]$

What do I do?

- Mark