On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:29:33PM -0500, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 10:02 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Amitabha Roy wrote: > > > How is it possible that iwconfig and NM applet show conflicting information ? > > > In this case at least a 30% signal strength means that NM applet information > > > is actually incorrect. > > > > Orinoco cards have problems. My orinoco card (and I've had the same > > report from 2 other people) will refuse to associate with an AP when its > > strength is low. However, it will report being connected to an AP when it > > clearly cannot be. For example: > > > > hmmmm. I have a Symbol wireless card which uses orinoco_cs. At this > point (after having several problems with said driver/card and > NetworkManager, and reading comments like Dan's...), I'm thinking I need > to use a better driver. Are there better alternatives to orinoco_cs? > Would NdisWrapper be a better choice? My Symbol LA4111 card was working fine with orinoco_cs back in FC2 or early FC3test I believe. Something changed, and I couldn't get it to work with test3 and later IIRC.