Hi guys, More experimentation with my rtl8187. With some playing around with the access point location, I think I may have stumbled on a good position. Anyway ... I noticed that the rate reported by iwconfig only ever gets to 11Mb/s despite the fact that I now have a signal level of 90/100 - 100/100. I found that I can do iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M but it seems that although the card is still associated networking doesnt work (pings fail). If I change it back to auto iwconfig wlan0 rate auto then iwconfig reports 11Mb/s again and pinging resumes fine. Is there any chance that the driver is incorrectly reporting its mode or something in that the rates it displays bear the hallmarks of a b card rather than g? Using the compat-wireless snapshot from 9/2/2009 Mandriva 2.6.27.10-desktop586-1mnb Any ideas appreciated. Regards PGR -- Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. [The Laws, Plato] You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity? Have you ever considered a career in the church? Bishop of Bath and Wells (Blackadder II) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html