setting the bit rate

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:35:41PM -0500, Jones MB wrote:
> is it recommended practice to manually set the bit rate of a wireless 
> card?  in the startup scripts I have specified "auto" for the bit 
> rate.  when I run iwconfig on the interface, I see that it connects at 
> 2Mbps.  when I run "iwconfig eth3 rate 11M" the rate does not change from 
> 2Mbps.
> 
> I recently did a kernel upgrade (2.4.7 to 2.4.18).  The driver was upgraded 
> from 0.07 to 0.12b.  Before the upgrade I was able to change the 
> speed.  Does the newer version of the driver/kernel prevent rate changes 
> with iwconfig?
> 
> The Linux system has a Lucent silver card with firmware 7.28.  The 
> orinoco_cs driver is 0.12b.  The Linux system talks to an iBook with an 
> Airport card.  The iBook is running OS X.  The two systems communicate in 
> Ad-hoc mode.  There is no AP.  The PCMCIA stuff is 3.1.22.  WEP is off.
> 
> Everything works (albeit slower than I would like it to) and has been 
> working for years.  I am just trying to make it work a little quicker.

Use 0.11b, not 0.12b.  The 0.12 versions may be considered a failed
experiment...

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