Re: [iPAQ] screen flicker with Aironet wireless PCMCIA card

> You problem has nothing to do with power, but with bus saturation. The
> iPaq only has a 16Bit 8MHz bus and that is saturated by the Aironet card
> ('s driver) and the screen is not refressed in time. The only thing that
> would help you is to reduce the bandwidth of the wireless connection.
> Maybe you do not want this.

Thanks! That's great to know. I'd gladly cut the bandwidth in order
to get a stable display. Browsing web pages through a kaleidoscope
isn't too much fun. :-)

However, when I went to test "iwconfig <if> rate", I discovered that I
can't reproduce the problem any more. Two things happened since I last
saw the problem: (1) I did an "ipkg upgrade" from familiar-unstable
(although I had previously already upgraded to the latest kernel and
modules), and the people running wireless at my work moved the access
points. So either something got fixed in terms of how Familiar
configures the card, or I'm getting worse reception now and therefore
the card is falling back to a slower connection.

Cheers, and thanks a lot for your reply!

-j.
Received on Fri Feb 22 11:19:08 2002