On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 21:26 -0600, Brian Millett 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? > > > wget http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/orinoco-0.15rc2.tar.gz > tar -zxvf orinoco-0.15rc2.tar.gz > cd orinoco-0.15rc2 > make KERNEL_SRC=/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build all > make KERNEL_SRC=/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build install > init 6 > > Then you'll be set. Works for my Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan > chipset. > > [bpm]$ sudo iwlist eth1 scan > eth1 Scan completed : > Cell 01 - Address: 00:02:2D:31:39:60 > ESSID:"RunAway" > Mode:Master > Frequency:2.437GHz (Channel 6) > Signal level:57/153 Noise level:14/153 > Encryption key:on > Bit Rate:1Mb/s > Bit Rate:2Mb/s > Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s > Bit Rate:11Mb/s > Cell 02 - Address: 00:06:25:64:E7:36 > ESSID:"linksys" > Mode:Master > Frequency:2.437GHz (Channel 6) > Signal level:17/153 Noise level:13/153 > Encryption key:off > Bit Rate:1Mb/s > Bit Rate:2Mb/s > Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s > Bit Rate:11Mb/s > Cell 03 - Address: 00:0D:72:08:39:79 > ESSID:"2WIRE477" > Mode:Master > Frequency:2.457GHz (Channel 10) > Signal level:18/153 Noise level:15/153 > Encryption key:off > Bit Rate:1Mb/s > Bit Rate:2Mb/s > Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s > Bit Rate:11Mb/s > Bit Rate:22Mb/s > Cell 04 - Address: 00:0F:3D:4A:06:8A > ESSID:"Ronnie's House" > Mode:Master > Frequency:2.427GHz (Channel 4) > Signal level:16/153 Noise level:14/153 > Encryption key:off > Bit Rate:1Mb/s > Bit Rate:2Mb/s > Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s > Bit Rate:11Mb/s > > > -- > Brian Millett > Enterprise Consulting Group "Shifts in paradigms > (314) 205-9030 often cause nose bleeds." > bpmATec-groupDOTcom Greg Glenn > > > interesting, I wonder why mine works outta the box? -- =Guy 22:00:06 up 2:54, 2 users, load average: 0.41, 0.29, 0.43