Mailed this to madwifi list but haven't got any response. Trying my luck
here in case somebody with wireless knowledge can comment on this problem.
I am using madwifi driver for D-link DWL-G520 pci wireless card. The
card is working in access point mode (master mode) and has WPA-PSK
encryption enabled using hostapd. I am also running a DHCP server on
this machine (which has Debian Etch and 2.6.17 kernel) and the card is
working and gives out ip addresses to wireless clients.
However, if I do ifconfig, I see that there are frame and TX errors. I
wonder why these are there and if I am doing something wrong or if I am
missing something.
#> ifconfig ath0
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr <hex addr here>
inet addr:192.168.5.1 Bcast:192.168.5.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: <hex add here> Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:2290 Metric:1
RX packets:2837 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:768 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:123758 (120.8 KiB) TX bytes:113561 (110.8 KiB)
#> ifconfig wifi0
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr <hex addr here>
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:61091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:9156346
TX packets:25088 errors:5810 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:3374650 (3.2 MiB) TX bytes:4495630 (4.2 MiB)
Interrupt:201 Memory:c8bc0000-c8bd0000
The TX errors and the frame numbers in wifi0 is what I don't understand.
Can anybody explain these?
Also, why is the MTU of ath0 2290 and not 1500? Is this something that
is normal in wireless interfaces?
Thanks,
->HS
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