setting the bit rate

[Phil Schlesinger]

I am using almost that exact configuration successfully, with David's change:

Lucent orinoco gold card firmware v7.28, RedHat 7.3. Linux 2.4.18-5,
orinoco_cs-0.11b with the Snax patch, but the orinoco firmware DID NOT WORK
with this setup! I downgraded from v7.28 to v6.06 and everything worked fine.


--- David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 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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> david at gibson.dropbear.id.au	| solution which is simple, neat and
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