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Subject:    Re: [Openzaurus-users] WI-FI on C1000 (Akita) - help needed.
From:       Ashley J Gittins <agittins () purple ! dropbear ! id ! au>
Date:       2006-07-14 4:40:40
Message-ID: 200607141440.41274.agittins () purple ! dropbear ! id ! au
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On Friday 14 July 2006 01:04, Scrivens, Walt wrote:
....
> The card is recognized and gets an IP address from the network;
> Wellenreiter works perfectly.
....
> but for some reason the Zaurus takes a really long
> time to get a web page displayed on the included Konqueror browser -
> nearly 2 minutes to load openzaurus.org, for example.

Hi Walt,
	It sounds like the wireless part of things is working ok (at least enough to 
get an IP), but you need to confirm that the IP side is working well before 
we can work out the probs with the browser.

Can you open up a shell on the Z and try pinging a few IP addresses? Try the 
ip addy of your other machines, the gateway, and something outside your 
network. Eg, if your router is at 192.168.0.1 then run "ping 192.168.0.1" and 
check the times on the far-right - they should not be more than a few 
milliseconds, and they should be consistent.

If that gave you long times or erratic times then you probably have a problem 
with the radio side of things - Richard's advice would be the best course of 
action in that case.

If the times are short and consistent, then try some DNS tests to see if it's 
the name resolution that is slowing things down. Try looking up a few sites 
using the nslookup command. for example "nslookup google.com" should give you 
an answer with a few IP addresses in a short period of time - I'd say 
anything over two seconds would be a worry. Doing the same address a second 
time should be near instantaneous. Try several addresses as the Z should 
cache some of the results after the first query.

If those tests give you slow or unreliable results then you need to sort out 
your name resolution. This is controlled by entries in the 
file /etc/resolv.conf - you need to check that the nameservers listed in that 
file are correct and contactable. If there is a "search" line in resolv.conf 
that might be causing you problems too, you can try commenting out that line 
with a # to test.

You can tell nslookup to query against a particular server with the @ symbol - 
eg: nslookup www.openzaurus.org @192.168.0.1 will use 192.168.0.1 as the dns 
server.

If the DNS tests all look good, then check and see if something on the network 
(like the router) is messing with your http traffic. 
If you run "wget http://www.google.com" it should save index.html onto your Z 
in pretty short order, if it does then your problem is most likely with 
konqueror.

If none of that helps, let us know the results of the above and hopefully 
someone will be able to make sense of it. Given that there has been some 
problems with the hostap_cs vs orinoco modules recently though Richard's 
advice might be the simple and complete answer :-)

-- 
Regards,
	Ashley J Gittins
	web: 	http://www.purple.dropbear.id.au
	jabber: agittins@purple.dropbear.id.au


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