rum0 performance < 1Mbps; ath0 reboots system

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 04:48:26 PST 2009


On 1/14/09, Deceased <deceased at webmail.vulcano.lt> wrote:
> Hi, List,
>
> Recently I've set up my non-lcd-wokring HP NX9020 notebook as ADSL
> gateway and AP on 7.1-release
>
> Everything works well except wireless. I have LogiLink WL0025 (RT2573)
> which users rum(4) driver. I now it's not recomended to use rum cards as
> hostap, but my ath(4) card works even worse(later on that).

rum(4) is known to have bad rx signals, eg. it is not complete.
Also speed depends on reported tx rate; visible from ifconfig rum0 output.
old usb stack have its own limits ...

-- 
Paul


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