prism54

[eric tanguy]

> 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.
>