Slow wlan w. high excessive retries, invalid misc

[miihkali]

I have an old LIfebook laptop with DWL-610 pcmcia wlan card. Works perfectly with PCLinuxOS but would like to use Puppy as it's a lot faster.

Wireless works with Ndiswrapper and the netdlwl driver (I think it's the same as in PCLos) but is a lot slower in Puppy. The speed seems to vary somehow, with complex pages loading mostly very slowly and simple ones mostly ok. IMAP connections using the SeaMonkey mail are extremely slow.

Is there something I could do? In iwconfig, tx excessive retries & invalid misc seem to be very high (none in PCLOS). The "sens" is also different, I think it lists "80/85" in PCLOS.

I'm using Puppy 3.01 with the newer kernel.

Iwconfig says:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Matola"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417 GHz Access Point: (removed)
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:(removed) Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality:65/100 Signal level:-54 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:-1832386784 Invalid misc:-1054605298 Missed beacon:0

Dmesg says:

Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:13.0 [10cf:10e6]
Yenta O2: res at 0x94/0xD4: ea/00
Yenta O2: enabling read prefetch/write burst
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0cb8, PCI irq 9
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:13.1 [10cf:10e6]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0cb8, PCI irq 9
Socket status: 30000820
pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: cardmgr.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect brea
kage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/k ... cmcia.html for details.

....and...

usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
ndiswrapper version 1.46 loaded (smp=no) ndiswrapper: driver netdlwl (D-Link,10/30/2003,5.162.1030.2003) loaded
PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 9
wlan0: ethernet device 00:11:95:8d:c6:e6 using NDIS driver: netdlwl, version: 0
x500a2, NDIS version: 0x500, vendor: 'D-Link Air Wireless LAN Adapter', 1186:33
00.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA; AES/CCMP with WPA
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper