[Ndiswrapper-general] Dropping packets on WMP11v4

[neil k. <re...@gm...>]

Hello all,

I recently got stuck with two Linksys WMP11's for an ad-hoc link
before I knew there were three different versions of WMP11. (Doh.) I
have two v4s and I have them working with ndiswrapper (driver
lsipnds).

I have no problems connecting them -- the problem is with dropped
packets. Even with the two computers sitting right next to each other,
the connection drops a whole lot of packets under stress -- a few
seconds of ping -f will drop about 40% of packets! It doesn't drop any
packets if the link usage is low (an ssh session, for instance) but it
shows up when transferring a large file, for instance.

The existing ad-hoc link, for what it's worth, is between two Orinoco
PCMCIA cards and it doesn't drop any packets. (Native orinoco_cs
driver)

I haven't tested these cards with Windows, so I don't have the problem
narrowed down to ndiswrapper. It might be a hardware issue or the
driver itself. Has anyone got any experience with this problem on this
or other cards using ndiswrapper, or any insight on bad hardware with
a WMP11?

 -- neil klopfenstein