[ale] Dropped Packets on Wifi

[Brian Pitts]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 22:03 -0500, Brian Pitts wrote:
>> I'd been assuming this was a hardware issue, but this was wrong. The 
>> connection works fine in Fedora 8, just not Ubuntu 7.10.
> 
> So clearly <slips into cranberry stained flame-proof suit> RedHat has a
> better distro <and runs for cover next to the gravy boat>
> 
> :)
> 
> Your symptoms are quite bazaar. Try disabling the firewall on the laptop
> and see if things improve (That _should_ have no effect on the
> per-packet performance). Check the wifi device driver between the Ubuntu
> and Fedora and see if they are different versions.
> 

I disabled the firewall in both. Fedora uses the iwl3945 driver and 
UBuntu uses the older ipw3945.

(The difference is that iwl3945 uses the new mac80211 subsystem and 
replaces the regulatory daemon with a microcode image, BTW.)

-Brian