Bug 85419
| Summary: | Poor wifi connection with WEP enabled | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Charles <deacon_jsg> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | nitind |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:40:35 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 Description of problem: I had this same problem with RH 8.0 and it's still present in Phoebe... I've got a Dell CPx-500 laptop and an Orinoco Silver wifi 801.11b pcmcia card with 64 bit WEP encryption. With WEP enabled, I can surf to one, maybe two sites. Then my connection bogs down and I can't connect to any other sites. I don't get any error messages, but the Mozilla spinner just spins and nothing happens like it's trying to connect. However, when I turn off WEP, my connection flies and there's no problems. I know this is not a hardware problem b/c I've tested it on some other distros and my wifi connection works just fine, with WEP enabled. There is something going on with either the RH kernel, the orinoco_cs module, or something that's causing this wifi connection to get clogged up when WEP is enabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up Orinoco silver pcmcia wifi card, turn on WEP 2. Connect to websites 3. Actual Results: I can connect to one or two sites, then connection clogs up. Expected Results: Connection should be nice and clean, even with WEP enabled. Additional info: