Orinoco/Realtek 8180 interoperability problem

[grungie]

eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 6.16

I remember flashing both cards a while ago under Windows (AFAIK, there 
is no way of doing it under Linux) because they only supported the 
Lucent proprietary Ad-Hoc mode.

Is this firmware known to have compatibility problems with other Wi-Fi 
products?

Thanks for your reply!


> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:37:19PM +0000, grungie wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been using two ELSA Airlancer cards under Linux for a few years
>> and recently tried to add a node to my small Wi-Fi LAN. Both ELSA 
>> cards
>> are running the orinoco driver, one under 2.4.x and the other under
>> 2.6.x. Everything is fine until I try adding the Realtek 8180 Windows
>> XP machine to my Ad-Hoc network.
>>
>> Just to make sure this is not a WEP problem, I have temporarily
>> disabled encryption.
>> The funny thing is that Windows sees my WLAN, tells me it has 
>> excellent
>> link quality but fails to talk to my Linux boxen (and vice versa). On
>> the Windows side, I get loads of "TX Beacon Errors" and also quite a
>> few "RX CRC Errors".
>>
>> This is the output of iwconfig on the 2.4.x box:
>>
>> eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"ducon"  Nickname:"armada"
>>           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.457GHz  Cell: 02:02:2D:0F:87:A3
>>           Bit Rate:2Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
>>           Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>>           Encryption key:off
>>           Power Management:off
>>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:1
>>           Tx excessive retries:11  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>>
>> Any idea what's going wrong?
>
> What's the firmware version on the Linux nodes?  It should show up if
> you run "dmesg" immediately after loading the driver.
>
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