Aironet 340 Accesspoint & Prism2 cards

[Ben Greear]

Try setting your speed to fixed 2M, with a command
similar to:
iwconfig eth1 rate 2M

(read the man page for iwconfig if that doesn't work).

Also, check /var/log/messages for error messages from the
driver...



David Mohr wrote:

> Hi,
> I have the following problem: I have a cisco aironet 340 accesspoint and 
> several wlan cards: cisco, dlink, netgear and orinoco. The problem is, 
> under linux I only get the cisco and the orinoco card to work with the 
> accesspoint at full speed. The other two cards, both with prism2 chipset 
> I believe, find the accesspoint, I get a connection and I even can 
> transfer data - at a freaking rate of 500b/s.
> I tried it with and without wep, have set the "non aironet clients" 
> option at the accesspoint and am using kernel 2.4.18. I even tried the 
> new 0.10 version of the orinoco drivers but it still does not work. The 
> funny thing is that under windows it works fine, so I think this is a 
> driver problem. Is it just that the prism2 cards are not that well 
> supported under linux yet? I'm pretty new to wireless stuff so I have 
> very little overview about the development.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Bye,
> David
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