[ale] Wifi weirdness

[Richard]

On Thursday 23 December 2004 01:51 pm, Joe Knapka wrote:
> Richard <ratcheson at earthlink.net> writes:
> > On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:58 pm, Joe Knapka wrote:
> > > After iwconfig'ing the card as similarly as I can, iwconfig reveals
> > > that the card is configured identically in each case, except that
> > > the "Frequency" is set to 2.437Ghz on laptop A, 2.422Ghz on laptop
> > > B. This seems the only pertinent difference between the two cases,
> > > but iwconfig cannot change the frequency in either case ("operation
> > > not supported"). So I am confused as to (a) how and why the
> > > frequency would be set differently on the two machines, (b) how to
> > > change this, and (c) whether there is some underlying issue that I
> > > need to address.
> >
> > They are set on different channels.  A is on  channel 6 and B is on
> > channel 3.
> > You can use iwconfig wlan0 channel nn
> > to set the channel no.  That's assuming wlan0 is your wifi card.
>
> You'd think so, wouldn't you? But "iwconfig eth0 channel 1"
> complains "operation not supported". (BTW eth0 is definitely the
> wifi card; there isn't another NIC in the machine, and
> "iwconfig eth0 essid FOO" works fine.)
Joe, I'm using SUSE9.1 so mine may be a bit different, but have a look 
at /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcg-eth0 and see how the two machines compare.

You may have that setting your channel number by default.  On all mine the 
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=' '
 See if you dont have the B machine getting it set for channel three, 
perhaps.
Richard

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