Very slow wireless connection after update

[jethro]

Hi everybody,

 

I am running Mandriva 2007 for a few weeks now, and I have the habbit of updating the system quite regularly. Two days ago I ran an update with:

urpmi.update -a
urpmi --auto-select

 

After that my wireless connection is extremelly slow if working at all. When I ping to my router I get around 90% packet loss. Pinging outside doesn't work at all. If I try to visit a website it's extremelly slow, most of the times it doesn't even load.

 

I have an Atheros chipset and I use the madwifi drivers. I connect to my router using DHCP, there are some snippets of log files.

At boot time:

ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.

ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)

wlan: 0.8.4.2 (svn r1753)

ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (svn r1753)

ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn r1753)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps

wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps

wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP

wifi0: mac 7.8 phy 4.5 radio 5.6

wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic

wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic

wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic

wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic

wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic

wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons

wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xc0200000, irq=11

8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10

PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf90be000, 00:a0:d1:2f:9a:6a, IRQ 10

eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'

eth0: link down

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC861, trying auto-probe from BIOS...

tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6

tun: © 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>

NET: Registered protocol family 10

lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver

ACPI Error (evevent-0312): No installed handler for fixed event [00000000] [20060127]

mtrr: no more MTRRs available

ath0: no IPv6 routers present

 

When I try to connect to the wireless network by hand:

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: modified file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/00:0c:f6:21:39:51

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: modified file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/00:0c:f6:21:39:51

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: changed mode of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/00:0c:f6:21:39:51 to 700

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: written ath0 interface configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/00:0c:f6:21:39:51

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: modified file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/00:0c:f6:21:39:51

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: modified file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/Borsje-de-Loos

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: modified file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/Borsje-de-Loos

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: changed mode of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/Borsje-de-Loos to 700

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: written ath0 interface configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/Borsje-de-Loos

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: modified file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/Borsje-de-Loos

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: modified file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: modified file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: changed mode of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 to 700

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: written ath0 interface configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: running: /sbin/ifdown ath0 daemon

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost ifplugd(ath0)[12792]: Exiting.

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost drakroam[12592]: running: /sbin/ifup ath0 daemon

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost ifplugd(ath0)[13074]: ifplugd 0.28 initializing.

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost ifplugd(ath0)[13074]: Using interface ath0/00:11:F5:E4:87:B0

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost ifplugd(ath0)[13074]: Using detection mode: wireless extension

Nov 26 12:23:56 localhost ifplugd(ath0)[13074]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected.

Nov 26 12:24:59 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ath0: link becomes ready

Nov 26 12:24:59 localhost ifplugd(ath0)[13074]: Link beat detected.

Nov 26 12:25:00 localhost ifplugd(ath0)[13074]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action ath0 up'.

Nov 26 12:25:00 localhost dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801

Nov 26 12:25:01 localhost dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801

Nov 26 12:25:01 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67

Nov 26 12:25:01 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.254

Nov 26 11:25:01 localhost avahi-daemon[3633]: New relevant interface ath0.IPv4 for mDNS.

Nov 26 11:25:01 localhost avahi-daemon[3633]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface ath0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.36.

Nov 26 11:25:01 localhost avahi-daemon[3633]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.36 on ath0.

Nov 26 12:25:01 localhost NET[13820]: /sbin/dhclient-script : updated /etc/resolv.conf

Nov 26 12:25:01 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.36 -- renewal in 14383 seconds.

Nov 26 12:25:01 localhost ifplugd(ath0)[13074]: client: Determining IP information for ath0... done.

Nov 26 12:25:02 localhost postfix/postfix-script: refreshing the Postfix mail system

Nov 26 12:25:02 localhost postfix/master[4171]: reload configuration /etc/postfix

Nov 26 12:25:02 localhost ifplugd(ath0)[13074]: Program executed successfully.

Nov 26 12:25:09 localhost kernel: ath0: no IPv6 routers present

 

Before the update of my system everything was working out great. I am not sure which packages are updated (perhaps I can check this somewhere?) although I am sure it had to do something with HAL, because HAL was stopped and started during the update process.

 

When running Windows my wireless connection is fine, so it is not a problem with my ISP or something. Does someone out there know a solution for this problem?

 

Best regards,

Jethro