Hey forum,
EDIT: I’m running Suse 11.1 KDE 3.5
My wireless is working absolutely slow. Pages aren’t loading fast and I timeout when trying to do online updates. Here’s some information:
Device: PRO/Wireless 3945 ABG [Golan] Network Connection
Kernel Driver: iwl3945
all my firmware seems to be in order.
/usr/sbin/iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.
wmaster0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:24:8C:4F:46:8C
ESSID:“kwarner”
Mode:Master
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=88/100 Signal level:-44 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=00000005e04c0007
Extra: Last beacon: 88ms ago
eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:“kwarner”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:24:8C:4F:46:8C
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality=88/100 Signal level:-45 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
/sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B0:D4:5B:AE
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0xe000
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:1062 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1062 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:112443 (109.8 Kb) TX bytes:112443 (109.8 Kb)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:77:1C:4A:1E
inet addr:192.168.0.10 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:77ff:fe1c:4a1e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:237402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:170941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:315023450 (300.4 Mb) TX bytes:26278207 (25.0 Mb)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1B-77-1C-4A-1E-61-31-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
ping -c 5 Google
— Google ping statistics —
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4027ms
any ideas of what I’m doing wrong or what is happening?
Thanks,
Leo