[Soekris] Soekris 5501 with Many Errors Using Metrix miniPCI 802.11

[Randy Bush]

For our Tokyo apartment border device, I hacked together a Soekris 5501 
with a large SATA hard drive, a Metrix CM9 802.11abg miniPCI card, and 
FreeBSD 8-CURRENT. All worked well except the wireless was significantly 
damaged due to very very frequent errors causing TCP back-off. It was 
pretty useless. I spent a number of hours chasing it down, some with the 
help of the FreeBSD Net mailing list and Sam Leffer in particular.

I attempted to better shield it.  A full description with pretty 
pictures is at <http://rip.psg.com/~randy/5501-abg.html>.

Bottom line so far: hokey household supply shielding has not fixed the 
problem.  I suspect the hard drive mounting over the miniPCI may be the 
problem, but really do not know.

Help/clue still needed.

randy