setting the bit rate

[Stephen Bennett]

I've noticed even with out a link up iwconfig reports 2M as the connection
speed (seems to be the default that shows up.)
Also i've noticed that to change some settings on iwconfig you need to
ifconfig down the device and then bring it up.

Possibly try setting the Speed and even if it doesnt say its at 1M or 11M,
see if you see some speed changes.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jones MB" <jonesmb at arthem.com>
To: <wireless at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: setting the bit rate


> I have changed the driver from 12b to 11b.  I still have the same
> problem - bit rate stuck at 2Mbps.  Any idea why?
>
> thanks
> jmb
>
> >  > 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...
> >
> >--
> >David Gibson | For every complex problem there is a
> >david at gibson.dropbear.id.au | solution which is simple, neat and
> > | wrong.
> >http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson
>
>