[Madwifi-users] UPDATE - Atheros 5210/5212 miniPCI and excessive RX errors??

[Tony S. <to...@sa...>]

I have been having a lot of problems with 'a' and my linux system.
1- FreeBSD system with bridged 5210 based miniPCI acting as AP
2 -5210 miniPCI AP and 3 different 5210 miniPCI nics

Problems included hard to associate, DHCP failure or excessive attempts
needed to get a lease. No ping, dns, etc.

I ditched all the 5210 'a' based, and swithed to a/b/g 5212 cards.
Almost all of the problems have gone away w/ 1 exception.

A 5212 card associated to 'a' no excessive RX errors.

ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:41:16:9B:3E
          inet addr:172.17.1.20  Bcast:172.17.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:95217 errors:1015839 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:8920
          TX packets:12685 errors:165 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
          RX bytes:14053722 (13.4 Mb)  TX bytes:1808651 (1.7 Mb)
          Interrupt:11 Memory:e0f33000-e0f43000

A 5212 card associated to 'b/g' excessive RX errors, but works fine??
Anyone have any ideas why the 5210 cards work sooo poorly!?

_Tony