airport tx errors

[Natalia Portillo]

Do you have metal items near any of points (base station or laptop)?
Is there any non-gsm wireless phone in a 500m circle?
Is there any microwave oven running?

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> De: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com 
> [mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] 
> En nombre de Greg Hamilton
> Enviado el: lunes, 07 de julio de 2003 8:05
> Para: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Asunto: airport tx errors
> 
> 
> I'm successfully networked using Airport on my 500Mhz dual usb iBook 
> running YDL3.0.
> 
> However, I'm seeing some transmit errors. 512 errors for 
> 34984 packets 
> over the last 7 hours of fairly light network use. The base 
> station is 
> less that one metre from the iBook and I don't see these problems 
> running OSX so I assume it's a config problem.
> 
> I know it sounds like a very small ratio of errors to good 
> packets, but 
> it's actually pretty irritating. I've been logged into the iBook from 
> my desktop machine, running X11 to use a few Linux apps on my OSX 
> desktop. Every once in a while the apps become completely 
> unresponsive 
> for a few seconds. I've checked logs, watched the output of top, etc. 
> to make sure that nothing is happening when the apps freeze. The only 
> thing I can find is that the TX error count seems to increment by 1 
> each time it happens.
> 
> This doesn't happen if I connect from the laptop to other 
> systems, it's 
> only inbound connections.
> 
> Is anybody else seeing anything like this?
> 
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