Rate on Lucent Orinoco

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Tue Sep 3 15:01:08 EST 2002


On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 03:32:00PM +0100, Phil wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> I tried both suggestions, neither worked. The Buffalo card dosen't seem
> to support the commit command at all.
> 
> I even tried using RedHat's 2.4.18-3 drivers on the laptop, but that
> makes no difference at all.
> 
> Took a look at the source code, tho I'm not to familiar with how drivers
> work. I traced as far as the orinoco_ioctl_setrate() function in
> orinoco.c, and it all seems fine. I don't know where the data goes from
> there tho.

Was the interface up when you tried to check the rate?  The results
from iwconfig will be misleading if the interface is down, but the
change will take effect when it comes back up again.  This is a known
bug.

> On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 01:47, james tan wrote:
> 
> Hi, have you tried "iwconfig eth0 commit" ?. It seems certain firmware
> or cards would batch commands before commiting, this suggested command
> manually force that to happen
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> >From: michaeld at senet.com.au 
> 
> >To: wireless at lists.samba.org 
> >Subject: Re: Rate on Lucent Orinoco 
> >Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:58:19 +091800 
> > 
> > > Subject: Re: Rate on Lucent Orinoco 
> > > From: Phil 
> > > To: wireless at lists.samba.org 
> > > Date: 01 Sep 2002 11:55:00 +0100 
> > > 
> > > Hiya DS, 
> > > 
> > > I've seen the exact same problem on my laptop. I have a Buffalo 
> > > Airstation card (same card as Lucent's I'm told, only rebranded). 
> > > 
> > > The problem you describe only happens on the laptop which is running
> a 
> > > generic kernel 2.4.18. The same Buffalo card is running nicely at
> 11Mb 
> > > on my RedHat 7.3 box (with RedHat's 2.4.18-5 kernel). 
> > > 
> > > But on the RedHat box it seems to force the use of a KEY, no matter
> what 
> > > I do. I can change the key, just can't get rid of it. 
> > > 
> > > I setup another box last night running standard RedHat 7.3, no
> updates 
> > > or anything - and all of those problems vanished. Can set speed/key
> and 
> > > it all sticks. I believe it's running RedHat's 2.4.18-3 kernel. 
> > > 
> > > I know this isn't any help, but I figured since I'm having similar 
> > > problems I'd throw some more info into the list :) 
> > > 
> > > I'm gonna try 2.4.19 later, see if that makes a difference. 
> > 
> >Hi Phil, 
> > 
> >I too am running the RH 7.3 original kernel[1] with a silver Orinoco. 
> > 
> >I've found that I can turn WEP on/off (& change channel etc) if I
> change the 
> >ESSID. It appears that some parms don't actually change with iwconfig
> unless 
> >you change ESSID at the same time. I haven't played with the rate yet
> so I 
> >can't confirm or deny that parm. 
> > 
> >I need to sit down and read the source sometime to verify this and/or
> work out 
> >why - but there's too many other things to do first :) 
> > 
> >HTH, 
> > 
> >Michael... 
> >[1] With patched orinoco driver to give it scanning support :) 
> 
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