[ale] wireless b/g card talk to a b card

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Tue Apr 20 18:07:14 EDT 2004


Geof,
1.  Do you know that the chipset of the b/g card is supported?

2.  Can you ping anything with the b/g card when it's active?
Dow


Geoffrey wrote:
> So, I've got a b/g card and a b card.  The b card can ping the b/g card, 
> but the b/g card can not ping the b card.
> 
> Noting that the rate for the b/g card indicates 54Mb/s, I tried
> 
> iwconfig eth1 rate 11M
> 
> But it returns that it's not supported ????
> 
> Now the b card says it's rate is 5.5Mb/s, so I try:
> 
> iwconfig eth1 rate 11M
> 
> No complaints, but iwconfig reveals that it's still set at 5.5Mb/s
> 
> I'd like to get these cards talking, any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 

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